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Provenance vs Inception - What's the difference?

provenance | inception |

As nouns the difference between provenance and inception

is that provenance is place or source of origin while inception is the creation or beginning of something; the establishment.

provenance

English

Noun

(wikipedia provenance) (en noun)
  • Place or source of origin.
    • Many supermarkets display the provenance of their food products.
  • (archaeology) The place and time of origin of some artifact or other object. See Usage note below.
    • This spear is of Viking provenance .
  • (arts) The history of ownership of a work of art
    • The picture is of royal provenance .
  • (computing) The copy history of a piece of data, or the intermediate pieces of data utilized to compute a final data element, as in a database record or web site (data provenance)
  • (computing) The execution history of computer processes which were utilized to compute a final piece of data (process provenance)
  • (of a person) Background; history; place of origin; ancestry.

    • See also

    * provenience

    Usage notes

    * The term provenience in archaeology has largely replaced provenance'' because ''provenience'' is restricted to in situ location at the date of archaeological discovery rather than the "origin-to-present" chain of custody details of proper ''provenance as is customarily used by historians, museums, and commercial entities.

    inception

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The creation or beginning of something; the establishment.
    • From its inception the agency has been helping people obtain and properly install car seats for children.

    Coordinate terms

    * conception

    Derived terms

    * -ception

    See also

    * from the get-go