# Verification

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'''Verification''' or '''verify''' may refer to:
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==General==
* [Verification and validation](/source/Verification_and_validation), in engineering or quality management systems, is the act of reviewing, inspecting or testing, in order to establish and document that a product, service or system meets regulatory or technical standards
** [Verification (spaceflight)](/source/Verification_(spaceflight)), in the space systems engineering area, covers the processes of qualification and acceptance
* [Verification theory](/source/Verification_theory), philosophical theory relating the meaning of a statement to how it is verified
* [Third-party verification](/source/Third-party_verification), use of an independent organization to verify the identity of a customer
* [Authentication](/source/Authentication), confirming the truth of an attribute claimed by an entity, such as an identity
* [Forecast verification](/source/Forecast_verification), verifying prognostic output from a numerical model
* [Verifiability (science)](/source/Verifiability_(science)), a scientific principle
* [Verification (audit)](/source/Verification_(audit)), an auditing process

==Computing==
* Punched card verification, a data entry step performed after keypunching on a separate, keyboard-equipped machine, such as the [IBM 056 Verifier](/source/IBM_056)
* [Verification and validation (software)](/source/Verification_and_validation_(software))
* [Account verification](/source/Account_verification), verifying that an account is owned by a real person or organization

===Applications===
* [CAPTCHA](/source/CAPTCHA), device to verify that a user of a website is human, to prevent automated abuse
* [File verification](/source/File_verification), checking the formal correctness or integrity of a file
* [Speech verification](/source/Speech_verification), checking of the correct speaking of given sentences 
* [VERIFY (DOS command)](/source/List_of_DOS_commands)
* [GOV.UK Verify](/source/GOV.UK_Verify), identity assurance system in the United Kingdom

===Software development===
* [Formal verification](/source/Formal_verification), mathematical proof of the correctness of algorithms
* [Intelligent verification](/source/Intelligent_verification), automatically adapts the testbench to changes in RTL
* [Runtime verification](/source/Runtime_verification), during execution
* [Software verification](/source/Software_verification), an overview of techniques for verifying software

===Circuit development===
* [Hardware verification](/source/Hardware_verification)
* [Functional verification](/source/Functional_verification) of design of digital hardware
* [Analog verification](/source/Analog_verification), applies to analog or mixed-signal hardware
* [Physical verification](/source/Physical_verification), design of a circuit

==See also==
* [Validation (disambiguation)](/source/Validation_(disambiguation))
* [Verifiable computing](/source/Verifiable_computing)
* [Verification bias](/source/Verification_bias), a type of measurement bias
* [Verified](/source/Verified), a UN program against COVID-19-related misinformation
* [Verifier (disambiguation)](/source/Verifier_(disambiguation))
* [Measurement and verification](/source/Measurement_and_verification)

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