VALIDATION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of validating; finding or testing the truth of something

Synonyms:

proof; substantiation; validation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("validation" is a kind of...):

determination; finding (the act of determining the properties of something, usually by research or calculation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "validation"):

authentication; certification (validating the authenticity of something or someone)

documentation; support (documentary validation)

monetisation; monetization (establishing something (e.g. gold or silver) as the legal tender of a country)

probate (the act of proving that an instrument purporting to be a will was signed and executed in accord with legal requirements)

Derivation:

validate (prove valid; show or confirm the validity of something)

validate (give evidence for)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The cognitive process of establishing a valid proof

Synonyms:

establishment; validation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("validation" is a kind of...):

cogent evidence; proof (any factual evidence that helps to establish the truth of something)

Derivation:

validate (prove valid; show or confirm the validity of something)

validate (give evidence for)

Credits

Context examples:

The mission of the CBRG is to engage basic and clinical scientists as well as epidemiologists and statisticians in a search for and validation of promising early cancer biomarkers.

(Cancer Biomarkers Research Group, NCI Thesaurus)

A software package for the statistical validation of peptide identifications made by tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) and database searching.

(PeptideProphet, NCI Thesaurus)

A person who is responsible for directing personnel involved with the coordination and completion of forms that contain a list of information regarding procedure or content validation.

(Checklist Supervisor, NCI Thesaurus)

Sterilization methods that do not have a long history of safe and effective use and for which there are no FDA-recognized standards, but for which published information on validation of these methods exists and for which FDA has previously evaluated data as part of a QS evaluation and determined the methods to be adequate.

(FDA Classified Non-traditional Sterilization Method, NCI Thesaurus)

In this study, Guillermo Horga, M.D., Ph.D. of Columbia University, New York, and colleagues conducted a series of validation studies to show that NM-MRI can serve as a marker of dopamine function in individuals without neurodegenerative disorders.