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Falsification vs Verification - What's the difference?

falsification | verification |

As nouns the difference between falsification and verification

is that falsification is the act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not while verification is the act of verifying.

falsification

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • the act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not
  • knowingly false statement or wilful misrepresentation
  • showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong

    • 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)