validation

English

Etymology

From Middle French validation. Morphologically validate +‎ -ion

Pronunciation

• (UK, US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌvæl.əˈdeɪ.ʃən/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌvæl.əˈdæɪ.ʃən/

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Noun

validation (countable and uncountable, plural validations)

1. The act of validating something.
   • 2021, Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan, “What is... jealousy?”, in Let's Talk About It, →ISBN, page 190:

     In reality, brains go overboard with this sort of fear validation. They love any chance to prove a fear is valid while ignoring all the reasons it's not.

2. Something, such as a certificate, that validates something; attestation, authentication, confirmation, proof or verification.
3. The process whereby others confirm the validity of one's emotions.
4. (US) The process of identifying a new prisoner's gang affiliation.

Derived terms

• cross-validation
• validation suite

Translations

the act of validating something

• Arabic: التأكيد على الفاعلية
• Bulgarian: утвърждаване n (utvǎrždavane), ратифициране (bg) n (ratificirane)
• Catalan: validació (ca) f
• Czech: validace f
• Dutch: validering f
• Estonian: kinnitus
• Finnish: vahvistaminen (fi)
• French: validation (fr) f
• Georgian: დამოწმება (damoc̣meba), დაკანონება (daḳanoneba), რატიფიკაცია (raṭipiḳacia)
• German: Bestätigung (de) f, Gültigkeitserklärung f
• Hungarian: érvényesítés (hu), validálás, validáció (hu)
• Ingrian: vahvistama
• Maori: whakatūturutanga, whakapūmautanga, whakamanatanga
• Polish: potwierdzenie (pl) n, uprawomocnienie n, uzasadnienie (pl) n, walidacja f
• Portuguese: validação (pt) f
• Romanian: validare (ro), confirmare (ro), certificare (ro)
• Russian: ратифика́ция (ru) f (ratifikácija), утвержде́ние (ru) n (utverždénije), легализа́ция (ru) f (legalizácija), валида́ция (ru) f (validácija) (computing)
• Spanish: validación (es) f, convalidación f

something, such as a certificate, that validates something

• Arabic: تصديق
• Estonian: tõend
• Hungarian: megerősítés (hu), igazolás (hu), hitelesítés (hu)

French

Etymology

From valider +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va.li.da.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

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Noun

validation f (plural validations)

1. validation

Further reading

• “validation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.