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Verification   /vˌɛrəfəkˈeɪʃən/   Listen
noun
Verification  n.  
1.
The act of verifying, or the state of being verified; confirmation; authentication.
2.
(Law)
(a)
Confirmation by evidence.
(b)
A formal phrase used in concluding a plea.
Verification of an equation (Math.), the operation of testing the equation of a problem, to see whether it expresses truly the conditions of the problem.





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"Verification" Quotes from Famous Books



... to say, I was constantly reasoning by analogy and applying verification. So far from using the syllogistic form confidently, I habitually distrusted it as anything more than a test of consistency in statement. But I found the textbooks of logic disposed to ignore my customary method of reasoning altogether or to recognise it only ...
— First and Last Things • H. G. Wells
... to say—but my notes are horribly confused—that logic and philosophy were only relative, being dependent always in a greater or less degree upon the test of a material experiment for verification. ...
— The Wonder • J. D. Beresford
... Verification of Instruments.—On arriving at the sea-level, make daily observations with your boiling-point thermometer, barometer, and aneroid, as they are all subject to changes in their index-errors. As soon ...
— The Art of Travel - Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries • Francis Galton
... Cobden, but to which, in some few instances, it has been impossible to adhere for want of necessary documents, as he himself experienced—to 10,970 British vessels, of 1,797,000 aggregate tonnage outwards, repeated voyages inclusive, for the verification of the number of which we are without any returns, those made to Parliament by the public offices bearing the simple advertence on their face, with official nonchalance, that "there are no materials in ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 • Various
... was, he did not stop to see as he wrote if the assemblage of letters made intelligible words. No; during the first stage his mind refused all verification of that sort. What he desired was to give himself the ecstasy of reading it ...
— Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon • Jules Verne


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