AUTHENTICATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does authentication mean? 

• AUTHENTICATION (noun)
  The noun AUTHENTICATION has 2 senses:

1. a mark on an article of trade to indicate its origin and authenticity

2. validating the authenticity of something or someone

  Familiarity information: AUTHENTICATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AUTHENTICATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mark on an article of trade to indicate its origin and authenticity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

assay-mark; authentication; hallmark

Hypernyms ("authentication" is a kind of...):

mark; marker; marking (a distinguishing symbol)

Derivation:

authenticate (establish the authenticity of something)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Validating the authenticity of something or someone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

authentication; certification

Hypernyms ("authentication" is a kind of...):

proof; substantiation; validation (the act of validating; finding or testing the truth of something)

Derivation:

authenticate (establish the authenticity of something)

 Context examples 

A document that qualifies somebody to do something, provides authentication for a claim, or confirms position or status.

(Credential, NCI Thesaurus)

This name represents the name that should be used to get all the configuration for authentication for this application.

(Authentication Policy Configuration Name, NCI Thesaurus)

A secret set of characters, numbers, or symbols used as a form of authentication.

(Password, NCI Thesaurus)

Services that are needed to maintain the running of a grid, including monitoring and discovery service, security management service (authentication and authorization), identifier naming and resolution service, query and federated query service, and workflow management service.

(Core Grid Service, NCI Thesaurus)