authentication
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English
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From authenticate + -ation .
Pronunciation
[edit ]- (Received Pronunciation ) IPA (key): /ɔːˌθɛntɪˈkeɪʃn̩/
- (General American )
- (cot–caught merger ) IPA (key): /ɑˌθɛntɪˈkeɪʃn̩/
- (without the cot–caught merger ) IPA (key): /ɔˌθɛntɪˈkeɪʃn̩/
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- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
[edit ]authentication (countable and uncountable , plural authentications )
- Something which validates or confirms the authenticity of something; or the process of doing so.
- document authentication
- strong authentication
- The museum required scientific tests for the authentication of the painting.
- (computing ) Proof of identity required by a user to log on to some network or access some resource.
- Coordinate term: identification
- digital authentication
- Online banking uses two-factor authentication.
- A hallmark or assay-mark on a piece of metalwork.
Synonyms
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[edit ]Translations
[edit ]proof of the identity of a user logging on to some network
- Arabic: مُصَادَقَة f (muṣādaqa), اِسْتِيثَاق (ar) (istīṯāq)
- Belarusian: ідэнтыфіка́цыя f (identyfikácyja), аўтэнтыфіка́цыя f (awtentyfikácyja)
- Bulgarian: идентифика́ция f (identifikácija), автентика́ция f (avtentikácija)
- Catalan: autenticació f
- Chinese:
- Czech: autentizace (cs) f, autentifikace f
- Dutch: authenticatie (nl) f, authentificatie (nl) f
- Esperanto: aŭtentokontrolo
- Estonian: tõendus , autentimine
- Finnish: todennus (fi)
- French: authentification (fr) f
- German: Authentifikation (de) f
- Greek: αυθεντικοποίηση (el) f (afthentikopoíisi), πιστοποίηση (el) f (pistopoíisi), ταυτοποίηση (el) f (taftopoíisi)
- Hungarian: hitelesítés (hu) , autentikáció
- Italian: autenticazione (it) f
- Japanese: 認証 (ja) (にんしょう, ninshō)
- Korean: 인증(認證) (ko) (injeung)
- Latvian: autentifikācija f
- Māori: motuhēhēnga
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: autentisering m
- Persian: اصالتسنجی (esâlat-sanji)
- Polish: uwierzytelnianie n
- Portuguese: autenticação (pt) f
- Romanian: autentificare (ro) f
- Russian: идентифика́ция (ru) f (idɛntifikácija), аутентифика́ция (ru) f (autɛntifikácija)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: аутентикација f
- Latin: autentikacija f
- Slovak: autentifikácia f, autentizácia f
- Slovene: overjanje n
- Swahili: uthibitishaji (sw)
- Swedish: autentisering (sv) c
- Turkish: kimlik doğrulama (tr) , kimlik kanıtlama , tevsik (tr)
- Ukrainian: ідентифіка́ція f (identyfikácija), автентифіка́ція (uk) f (avtentyfikácija)
- Vietnamese: xác thực (vi)
something which validates or confirms the authenticity of something
- French: certification (fr) f
- Hungarian: eredetigazolás , eredetiségigazolás (hu)
- Italian: autenticazione (it) f
- Māori: hāponotanga , whakatūturutanga
- Portuguese: autenticação (pt) f
- Spanish: autenticación (es) f
References
[edit ]- "authentication", in OED Online Paid subscription required , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Categories:
- English terms suffixed with -ation
- English 5-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/eɪʃən
- Rhymes:English/eɪʃən/5 syllables
- English lemmas
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- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with collocations
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