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S vs Provenance - What's the difference?

s | provenance |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun provenance is

place or source of origin.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    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.