authentication

authenticate | Business English

authenticate
verb[ T ]
uk /ɔːˈθentɪkeɪt/ us /ɑːˈθenṱɪ-/
to prove that something is real, true, or what people say it is:
Each of these signatures must be authenticated by a lawyer.
Holograms can be used to authenticate documents.
IT
to prove that someone is a particular person:
A password is used to authenticate a user.
We offer electronic certificates that authenticate the identity of internet traders.

authentication

noun[ U ]uk /ɔːˌθentɪˈkeɪʃən/ us /ɑːˌθenṱɪ-/
We needed to identify a data source that we could use for authentication.

Examples of authenticate

authenticate
Their punishment and segregation authenticated the social order and helped to establish the work ethic.
Both portray their protagonists as communicating the divine and both share a special interest in their role as authoritative teachers, authenticated by life-style and character.
The association of sediments and fossils became unstable unless it was recorded and authenticated.
Then, by assuaging and resolving the ensuing distress, successful completion of the ritual performance authenticates the religious thoughts and actions.
Readers should note that interim findings were authenticated by storytellers both during interviews and in follow-up sessions.
The latter also ensure that agents are properly authenticated and therefore present a first line of defence against malicious agents in open multi-agent systems.
Over recent years, research has been undertaken to discriminate pasture-fed from concentrate-fed lambs and authenticate pasture-feeding in sheep meat.
It is vital in authenticating priority, in analysis as well as treatment.
The performance authenticates the audience's need, which itself then enables the performance.
These representations draw on an authenticating diasporic link, which in turn is used to buttress local claims for political dominance.
Many television celebrities authenticate their performances by playing to the same cast-type as their television character or by including their television catch-phrases.
One can just state whether a key is confidential or not, or whether a principal authenticates himself with another or not.
Also, a national design refereeing process is available to authenticate the standard of design projects by staff and give citations for work of excellence.
Unlike a diploma, a writ is authenticated by the king's seal.
In the case surveys, each sentence is studiously followed by a reference footnote, presumably to authenticate these essentially state-of-the-art summaries.
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