Other forms: verifications
Verification is the checking that something is true. Independent verification, verification of the claim, awaiting verification.
In arms control it is the whole problem: a treaty is only as good as the inspections that check it. In engineering, verification asks whether you built the thing right, and validation asks whether you built the right thing, which is a different question.
1nounverificationThe checking that something is true.
“The bank sent a code to my phone for verification before the payment went through.”
verification is a checking.
Medieval Latin verificatio comes from verus, true, plus facere, to make.
Proto-Indo-European
*weh₁-
Medieval Latin
vērificātiō
Middle French
verification
English, today
verification
From Middle French verification (modern French vérification) or its etymon Medieval Latin vērificātiō. by surface analysis, verificate + -ion.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA