CONFIRMATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does confirmation mean? 

• CONFIRMATION (noun)
  The noun CONFIRMATION has 5 senses:

1. additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct

2. information that confirms or verifies

3. making something valid by formally ratifying or confirming it

4. a ceremony held in the synagogue (usually at Pentecost) to admit as adult members of the Jewish community young men and women who have successfully completed a course of study in Judaism

5. a sacrament admitting a baptized person to full participation in the church

  Familiarity information: CONFIRMATION used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONFIRMATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

check; confirmation; substantiation; verification

Context example:

fossils provided further confirmation of the evolutionary theory

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

cogent evidence; proof (any factual evidence that helps to establish the truth of something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "confirmation"):

bed check (a check that everyone is in bed by the time they should be)

crosscheck (an instance of confirming something by considering information from several sources)

odd-even check; parity check; redundancy check (a system of checking for errors in computer functioning)

checksum (a digit representing the sum of the digits in an instance of digital data; used to check whether errors have occurred in transmission or storage)

Derivation:

confirm (establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts)

confirm (strengthen or make more firm)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Information that confirms or verifies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

info; information (a message received and understood)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "confirmation"):

reenforcement; reinforcement (information that makes more forcible or convincing)

certification; corroboration; documentation (confirmation that some fact or statement is true through the use of documentary evidence)

Derivation:

confirm (establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts)

confirm (strengthen or make more firm)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Making something valid by formally ratifying or confirming it

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

confirmation; ratification

Context example:

confirmation of the appointment

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

agreement (the verbal act of agreeing)

Derivation:

confirm (support a person for a position)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A ceremony held in the synagogue (usually at Pentecost) to admit as adult members of the Jewish community young men and women who have successfully completed a course of study in Judaism

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

religious ceremony; religious ritual (a ceremony having religious meaning)

Sense 5

Meaning:

A sacrament admitting a baptized person to full participation in the church

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

sacrament (a formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it; the two Protestant ceremonies are baptism and the Lord's Supper; in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church there are seven traditional rites accepted as instituted by Jesus: baptism and confirmation and Holy Eucharist and penance and holy orders and matrimony and extreme unction)

 Context examples 

Confirmation that the burn had completed was received on Earth at 8:53 pm.

(Juno Spacecraft in Orbit Around Mighty Jupiter, NASA)

The new findings are the first confirmation of just how deep some of Titan's lakes are (more than 300 feet, or 100 meters) and of their composition.

(Cassini Reveals Surprises with Titan's Lakes, NASA)

The confirmation of Kepler-452b brings the total number of confirmed planets to 1,030.

(Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to Earth, NASA)

We shall go to make our search—if I can call it so, for it is not search but knowing, and we seek confirmation only.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

What a melancholy confirmation: ain't it?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Confirmation of a successful touchdown is not the end of the challenges of landing on the Red Planet.

(NASA InSight Lander Arrives on Martian Surface, NASA)

Not yet decided or settled; awaiting conclusion or confirmation.

(Pending, NCI Thesaurus)

I had hitherto supposed him to be the murderer of my brother, and I eagerly sought a confirmation or denial of this opinion.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The criteria state that existing cognitive impairment may be considered possible or probable AD by neuropsychological testing but definitive diagnosis requires histopathologic confirmation.

(NINCDS-ADRDA Criteria for Alzheimer's Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

The confirmation (by other methods or modalities) that a tumor, which has not been previously seen or characterized, is present in the subject.

(New Tumor Confirmation, NCI Thesaurus)