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(1) To prove the correctness of data.

(2) In data entry operations, to compare the keystrokes of a second operator with the data entered by the first operator to ensure that the data were typed in accurately. See validate.



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`One might travel back and verify the accepted account of the Battle of Hastings, for instance
The Time Machine by Wells, H.G. View in context
Thus to revert to memory: A memory is "vague" when it is appropriate to many different occurrences: for instance, "I met a man" is vague, since any man would verify it.
The Analysis of Mind by Russell, Bertrand View in context
If we embrace the tenets of those who oppose the adoption of the proposed Constitution, as the standard of our political creed, we cannot fail to verify the gloomy doctrines which predict the impracticability of a national system pervading entire limits of the present Confederacy.
Federalist Papers Authored by Alexander Hamilton by Hamilton, Alexander View in context
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