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PROVENANCE
birthplace, cradle, place of origin, provenance, provenience
(noun) where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence; “the birthplace of civilization”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
provenance (countable and uncountable, plural provenances)
Place or source of origin.
(archaeology) The place and time of origin of some artifact or other object. See Usage note below.
(arts) The history of ownership of a work of art
(computing) The copy history of a piece of data, or the intermediate pieces of data utilized to compute a final data element, as in a database record or web site (data provenance)
(computing) The execution history of computer processes which were utilized to compute a final piece of data (process provenance)
(of a person) Background; history; place of origin
Synonym: ancestry
Usage notes
• The term provenience in archaeology has largely replaced provenance because provenience is restricted to in situ location at the date of archaeological discovery rather than the "origin-to-present" chain of custody details of proper provenance as is customarily used by historians, museums, and commercial entities.
Verb
provenance (third-person singular simple present provenances, present participle provenancing, simple past and past participle provenanced)
To establish the provenance of something
Source: Wiktionary
Prov"e*nance, n. [F., fr. provenir to originate, to come forth, L. provenire. Cf. Provenience.]
Definition: Origin; source; provenience.
Their age attested by their provenance and associations. A. H. Keane.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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SUFFOCATION
(noun) the condition of being deprived of oxygen (as by having breathing stopped); “asphyxiation is sometimes used as a form of torture”
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