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==General== * 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), in the space systems engineering area, covers the processes of qualification and acceptance * Verification theory, philosophical theory relating the meaning of a statement to how it is verified * Third-party verification, use of an independent organization to verify the identity of a customer * Authentication, confirming the truth of an attribute claimed by an entity, such as an identity * Forecast verification, verifying prognostic output from a numerical model * Verifiability (science), a scientific principle * 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 * Verification and validation (software) * Account verification, verifying that an account is owned by a real person or organization
===Applications=== * CAPTCHA, device to verify that a user of a website is human, to prevent automated abuse * File verification, checking the formal correctness or integrity of a file * Speech verification, checking of the correct speaking of given sentences * VERIFY (DOS command) * GOV.UK Verify, identity assurance system in the United Kingdom
===Software development=== * Formal verification, mathematical proof of the correctness of algorithms * Intelligent verification, automatically adapts the testbench to changes in RTL * Runtime verification, during execution * Software verification, an overview of techniques for verifying software
===Circuit development=== * Hardware verification * Functional verification of design of digital hardware * Analog verification, applies to analog or mixed-signal hardware * Physical verification, design of a circuit
==See also== * Validation (disambiguation) * Verifiable computing * Verification bias, a type of measurement bias * Verified, a UN program against COVID-19-related misinformation * Verifier (disambiguation) * Measurement and verification
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