Verify or verification may refer to:
General
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Verification and validation
Verification and validation (also abbreviated as V&V) are independent procedures that are used together for checking that a product, service, or system meets requirements and specifications and that it fulfills its intended purpose. These ar ...
, in engineering or quality management systems, is the act of reviewing, inspecting or testing, in order to establish and document that a product, service or system meets regulatory or technical standards
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Verification (spaceflight) Verification in the field of space systems engineering covers two verification processes: Qualification and Acceptance
Overview
In the field of spaceflight verification standards are developed by DoD, NASA and the ECSS, among others. Large aer ...
, in the space systems engineering area, covers the processes of qualification and acceptance
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Verification theory
Verificationism, also known as the verification principle or the verifiability criterion of meaning, is the philosophical doctrine which maintains that only statements that are empirically verifiable (i.e. verifiable through the senses) are cogniti ...
, philosophical theory relating the meaning of a statement to how it is verified
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Third-party verification, use of an independent organization to verify the identity of a customer
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Authentication
Authentication (from ''authentikos'', "real, genuine", from αὐθέντης ''authentes'', "author") is the act of proving an assertion, such as the identity of a computer system user. In contrast with identification, the act of indicat ...
, confirming the truth of an attribute claimed by an entity, such as an identity
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Forecast verification, verifying prognostic output from a numerical model
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Verifiability (science), a scientific principle
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Verification (audit)
Verification means "proving the truth" or "confirmation". Verification is an auditing process in which auditor satisfy himself with the actual existence of assets and liabilities appearing in the Statement of Financial position.http://accountlea ...
, an auditing process
Computing
* Punched card verification, a data entry step performed after keypunching on a separate, keyboard-equipped machine, such as the
IBM 056 Verifier
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Verification and validation (software)
Applications
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CAPTCHA
A CAPTCHA ( , a contrived acronym for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart") is a type of challenge–response test used in computing to determine whether the user is human.
The term was coined in 2003 b ...
, device to verify that a user of a website is human, to prevent automated abuse
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File verification, checking the formal correctness or integrity of a file
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Speech verification, checking of the correct speaking of given sentences
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Verify (DOS command)
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GOV.UK Verify
GOV.UK Verify was an identity assurance system developed by the British Government Digital Service (GDS) which was in operation between May 2016 and April 2023. The system was intended to provide a single trusted login across all British governme ...
, identity assurance system in the United Kingdom
Software development
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Formal verification
In the context of hardware and software systems, formal verification is the act of proving or disproving the correctness of intended algorithms underlying a system with respect to a certain formal specification or property, using formal met ...
, mathematical proof of the correctness of algorithms
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Intelligent verification, automatically adapts the testbench to changes in RTL
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Runtime verification, during execution
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Software verification, an overview of techniques for verifying software
Circuit development
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Hardware verification
Electronic design automation (EDA), also referred to as electronic computer-aided design (ECAD), is a category of software tools for designing electronic systems such as integrated circuits and printed circuit boards. The tools work together ...
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Functional verification
In electronic design automation, functional verification is the task of verifying that the logic design conforms to specification. Functional verification attempts to answer the question "Does this proposed design do what is intended?" This is a ...
of design of digital hardware
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Analog verification, applies to analog or mixed-signal hardware
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Physical verification, design of a circuit
See also
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Validation (disambiguation)
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Verifiable computing
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Verification bias, a type of measurement bias
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Verifier (disambiguation)
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Measurement and Verification Measurement and Verification (M&V) is the term given to the process for quantifying savings delivered by an Energy Conservation Measure (ECM), as well as the sub-sector of the energy industry
The energy industry is the totality of all of the in ...
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