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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of authenticating, verifying, or establishing the authoritativeness, genuineness, validity, credibility, or truth of anything; specifically, in law, the official attestation of a written instrument.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun a mark on an article of trade to indicate its origin and authenticity.
  • noun validating the authenticity of something or someone.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun something which validates or confirms the authenticity of something
  • noun computing proof of the identity of a user logging on to some network
  • noun a hallmark or assay-mark on a piece of metalwork

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a mark on an article of trade to indicate its origin and authenticity
  • noun validating the authenticity of something or someone

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