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VALIDATION
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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)
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.
(Neuromelanin-sensitive MRI identified as a potential biomarker for psychosis, National Institutes of Health)
