VERIFICATION
verification
Noun
- The act of verifying.
 - The state of being verified.
 - Confirmation; authentication.
- The detective needs verification of your whereabouts last night.
 
 - A formal phrase used in concluding a plea, to denote confirmation by evidence.
 - The operation of testing the equation of a problem, to see whether it truly expresses the conditions of the problem.
 
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