Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Verification

Verification , noun

[Compare French vérification.]

1.
The act of verifying, or the state of being verified; confirmation; authentication.
2.
(a) (Law) Confirmation by evidence.
(b)
(Law) A formal phrase used in concluding a plea.
Collocations (1)
Verification of an equation (Mathematics) , the operation of testing the equation of a problem, to see whether it expresses truly the conditions of the problem. — Davies & Peck. (Math. Dict.)