VALIDATE

validate

(verb) make valid or confirm the validity of; “validate a ticket”

validate

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

validate, corroborate

(verb) give evidence for

validate, formalize, formalise

(verb) declare or make legally valid

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

validate (third-person singular simple present validates, present participle validating, simple past and past participle validated)

(transitive) To render valid.

(transitive) To check or prove the validity of; verify.

(ergative) To have its validity successfully proven.

Antonyms

• disprove

• invalidate

Source: Wiktionary


Val"i*date, v. t. Etym: [See Valid.]

Definition: To confirm; to render valid; to give legal force to. The chamber of deputies . . . refusing to validate at once the election of an official candidate. London Spectator.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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TERNARY

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