Associations to the word «Verification»

Wiktionary

VERIFICATION, noun. The act of verifying.
VERIFICATION, noun. The state of being verified.
VERIFICATION, noun. Confirmation; authentication.
VERIFICATION, noun. (legal) A formal phrase used in concluding a plea, to denote confirmation by evidence.
VERIFICATION, noun. (mathematics) The operation of testing the equation of a problem, to see whether it truly expresses the conditions of the problem.
VERIFICATION CRITERION, noun. (philosophy) Alternative term for verifiability principle
VERIFICATION PRINCIPLE, noun. (philosophy) Alternative term for verifiability principle

Dictionary definition

VERIFICATION, noun. Additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct; "fossils provided further confirmation of the evolutionary theory".
VERIFICATION, noun. (law) an affidavit attached to a statement confirming the truth of that statement.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky