VALIDATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does validation mean? 

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

1. the act of validating; finding or testing the truth of something

2. the cognitive process of establishing a valid proof

  Familiarity information: VALIDATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VALIDATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of validating; finding or testing the truth of something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

proof; substantiation; validation

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

determination; finding (the act of determining the properties of something, usually by research or calculation)

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

authentication; certification (validating the authenticity of something or someone)

documentation; support (documentary validation)

monetisation; monetization (establishing something (e.g. gold or silver) as the legal tender of a country)

probate (the act of proving that an instrument purporting to be a will was signed and executed in accord with legal requirements)

Derivation:

validate (prove valid; show or confirm the validity of something)

validate (give evidence for)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The cognitive process of establishing a valid proof

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

establishment; validation

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

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

Derivation:

validate (prove valid; show or confirm the validity of something)

validate (give evidence for)

 Context examples 

A person primarily responsible for database creation, data collection, validation, integration, coding, review, quality evaluation, and archiving, as well as for preparation of reports and data displays.

(Data Manager, NCI Thesaurus)

Methods for diagnosis or monitoring of disease predisposition by translation and validation of molecular discoveries in medicine into the clinical diagnostic setting.

(Molecular Diagnostic Method, NCI Thesaurus)

Development and preliminary validation of a pain measure specific to neuropathic pain: The Neuropathic Pain Scale.

(Neuropathic Pain Scale Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)

The long term goal of the project is full annotation of eukaryotic genomes through a thorough validation of expressed proteins.

(PeptideAtlas, NCI Thesaurus)

Processes for data acquisition, validation, storage, protection, and processing.

(Data Management, NCI Thesaurus)

The collection is particularly well-suited for validation studies of diagnostic and prognostic markers.

(Cooperative Breast Cancer Tissue Resource, NCI Thesaurus)

A person that is responsible for the completion of forms that contain a list of information regarding procedure or content validation.

(Checklist Completer, NCI Thesaurus)

The researchers note that the biomarker panel would require further validation in larger, diverse populations before it could be used clinically.

(Study Points to Possible Blood Test For Memory Decline, Alzheimer’s, NIH)

In order to evaluate these AI-found features, the research group verified the performance of recurrence prediction using the remaining cases from NMSH (internal validation).

(Artificial Intelligence Identifies Features Associated with Cancer Recurrence, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Within a year, after undergoing a checkout and validation of its six instruments, the new satellite will become operational.

(GOES-R heads to orbit, will improve weather forecasting, NOAA)