CONFIRMING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does confirming mean? 

• CONFIRMING (adjective)
  The adjective CONFIRMING has 2 senses:

1. indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen

2. serving to support or corroborate

  Familiarity information: CONFIRMING used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONFIRMING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen

Synonyms:

confirming; positive

Context example:

a positive pregnancy test

Similar:

Gram-positive ((of bacteria) being or relating to a bacterium that retains the violet stain used in Gram's method)

Domain category:

medical specialty; medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Serving to support or corroborate

Synonyms:

collateral; confirmative; confirmatory; confirming; corroborative; corroboratory; substantiating; substantiative; validating; validatory; verificatory; verifying

Context example:

collateral evidence

Similar:

supportive (furnishing support or assistance)

 Context examples 

The new study identified – with a nearly 97 percent detection rate – 97 new cortex areas per hemisphere, in addition to confirming 83 that were previously known.

(Connectome map more than doubles human cortex’s known regions, NIH)

Katz and his colleagues used mRNA sequencing to show that mouse astrocytes and CEPsh glia have similar genetic signatures, confirming his suspicion.

(Research on repetitive worm behavior has implications for understanding human diseases, National Science Foundation)

These data show that the density of the plasma is similar to what was measured previously, confirming the spacecraft is in interstellar space.

(Sun sends more 'tsunami waves' to Voyager 1, NASA)

Researchers say they will continue to study the intermediate-mass black hole candidate in the hope of confirming its existence.

(Astronomers Find New Evidence for Long-theorized Mid-sized Black Holes, VOA News)

Confirming this assumption in principle requires more powerful space telescopes than are currently available.

(Massive Dead Disk Galaxy Challenges Theories of Galaxy Evolution, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The latest research revealed motion of the two cores, confirming that the two black holes are orbiting each other.

(First-Ever Black-Hole 'Visual Binary' Revealed, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A new study finds that a large sea on Saturn's moon Titan is composed mostly of pure liquid methane, independently confirming an earlier result.

(Cassini Explores a Methane Sea on Titan, NASA)

An answer confirming the highest level of support.

(Highest Level of Support, NCI Thesaurus)

Confirming the planet's size and habitable zone status with Spitzer is another win for Spitzer as it approaches the end of science operations this January.

(NASA Planet Hunter Finds Earth-Size Habitable-Zone World, NASA)

The absence of EpoR causes high levels of neuronal apoptosis in the developing mouse brain, further confirming the important role of Epo as a neuroprotective agent.

(Erythropoietin Neuroprotection Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)