authentication
[ aw-then-ti-key-shuhn ]
noun
the act or process of establishing something as genuine or authoritative: The requisite authentication was performed on each piece before it was donated to the museum.
Also called electronic authentication .Digital Technology. the act or process of establishing identity and verifying permission to access an electronic device or computer network (often used attributively): password authentication;biometric authentication;authentication credentials.
Origin of authentication
1First recorded in 1600–20; authenticat(e) + -ion
Other words from authentication
- re·au·then·ti·ca·tion, noun
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How to use authentication in a sentence
The search for causes leads to authentications of this order.
Philosophic Nights In Paris | Remy De GourmontBoth dwell upon the absence of authentications and the suppression of names as utterly preventive of anything like proof.
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) | Augustus de Morgan
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