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authentication

Checking that someone or something is who it claims to be.

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Mark 76% connected

A license of reprisals. See Marque.

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Marker 76% connected

One who or that which marks.

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Marking 76% connected

of Mark

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Proof 76% connected

Any effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.

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Substantiation 76% connected

The act of substantiating or proving; evidence; proof.

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Validation 76% connected

The act of giving validity.

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Authenticate 74% connected

To render authentic; to give authority to, by the proof, attestation, or formalities required by law, or sufficient to entitle to credit.

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Authenticate 74% connected

To render authentic; to give authority to, by the proof, attestation, or formalities required by law, or sufficient to entitle to credit.

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Certification 92% connected

The act of certifying.

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