validate

invalidation

noun[ U ]
The error led to the invalidation of American scores on an international test.

Examples of invalidate

invalidate
To determine when a delta is no longer needed, the system keeps a weak pointer to it and waits for that pointer to be invalidated.
Moreover, the simulation studies of models 5-7 indicate that the ratio test is not invalidated by lethals.
Their overloading is closer to an assertion about their intended use, with a type error signaled if the assertion is invalidated.
Of course, this in no way invalidates the material or the book.
Therefore, log entries use weak pointers and a new object is created on replay if the corresponding entry pointer has been invalidated.
Moreover, theoretical inferences are not merely weakened or qualified but invalidated by violations of the homogeneity assumption.
A rejection of the homogeneity assumption, however, invalidates this logic.
However, when the patient and the patient's family are from a culture whose values are quite different, our ethic may be invalidated.
Such selection of the fitter hybrid genotypes could scatter the clines that make up a hybrid zone, invalidating inferences made assuming concordance.
However, we would argue that neither of these criticisms invalidates the approach we are taking in principle.
The calculations extend to 500 fs, after which time the basic assumptions of no hydrodynamics and cold ions are expected to be invalidated.
Perhaps the disr uption that would follow from invalidating the statutes in question was enough to overcome the risks of the judge-made secondar y rule.
Besides, persistent sentences once rejected by an update revive when the update is later invalidated.
The other, by contrast, felt that the issue of invisibility invalidated demonstration and that only a verbal explanation could work.
Modifying the type of r is not strictly speaking necessary, but not doing so could result in invalidating the pointer for subsequent operations.
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