Provenance vs Providence - What's the difference?
provenance | providence |
Place or source of origin.
(archaeology) The place and time of origin of some artifact or other object. See Usage note below.
(arts) The history of ownership of a work of art
(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.
Divine care or direction, the will of God or the gods; fate
Any of several cities named for this force, particularly the capital of the American state of Rhode Island
As nouns the difference between provenance and providence
is that provenance is place or source of origin while providence is preparation for the future; good governance, foresight.As a proper noun Providence is
divine care or direction, the will of God or the gods; fate.provenance
English
Noun
(wikipedia provenance) (en noun)- Many supermarkets display the provenance of their food products.
- This spear is of Viking provenance .
- The picture is of royal provenance .