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Prediction vs Verification - What's the difference?

prediction | verification |

As nouns the difference between prediction and verification

is that prediction is prediction (act of predicting) while verification is verification.

prediction

English

(wikipedia prediction)

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A statement of what will happen in the future.
    • "It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future." (in translation from Danish)

    Synonyms

    * (statement about the future) forecast, halseny, prognosis, prognostication

    verification

    English

    Noun

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

    • Derived terms

    * verification principle

    Related terms

    * verificationism * verify * verity * verism * veritable

    See also

    * (Formal verification)