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to invalidate

to invalidate

1 7.0
To stop an online access token or session so no one can use it
  • verb
  • /ɪnˈvælɪˌdeɪt/
  • Specialized
translation icon : invalidar (caché/resultados)
  • Although the right to strike is guaranteed by Mexico's constitution, government-controlled agencies can invalidate strikes.
  • invalidate command
  • invalidate the cache
  • invalidate the results

Examples

  • If the user does not verify their email address, the system will invalidate their access.

  • If locally shared, the exclusive state will be granted more quickly, since only local L1 copies must be invalidated.

    Academic text (1999)

  • Failure to do so could later enable another party to invalidate the issued patent.

    Blog text (29)

  • So it's going to invalidate all of the other copies of that cache line in other caches by changing their state from S to I.

  • A "globally shared" exclusive request cannot be granted until both the local and remote copies have been properly invalidated.

    Academic text (1999)

  • If the CP now wishes to make a modification, a second bus operation is needed to invalidate all multiple copies of the data.

    Academic text (1997)

  • Thus, some individuals are apparently capable of invalidating the results of penile plethysmographic measures of sexual arousal.

    Academic text (1991)

  • Certainly, an individual plaintiff or defendant can raise a Second Amendment claim in the hope of invalidating a statute that harms the individual.

    Academic text (2000)

  • The system will automatically invalidate your login token after a period of inactivity.

  • To protect your account, please make sure to invalidate your old password after changing it.

Synonyms

to revoke
vsto invalidate
  • Formal
96 6.2

Officially stop something from being valid, for example a license

is specific to disabling digital credentials so they cannot grant access
to nullify
vsto invalidate
  • Formal
15 7.2

To make a law or contract have no legal effect

is used for technical disabling of access artifacts rather than legal status

Antonyms

to validate
  • Specialized
14 4.5

To check that information follows the rules before it is accepted

How Invalidating

to destroy
∞ 1.0
to invalidate
  • Specialized
1 7.0
to blacklist
19 4.4
to revoke
  • Formal
96 6.2
to expire
197 3.7

Surface Forms

invalidate infinitive
invalidated past
invalidated past participle
invalidating present participle
invalidates third person singular

Morphology

invalidate = invalid (transparent) = in + valid + ate

This is a standard verb formation from the adjective 'invalid' meaning 'make invalid'.

Etymology

Invalidate comes from the prefix in- 'not' and the root valid 'strong' or 'acceptable', so to invalidate a digital token or session is to make it 'not valid' so it can no longer give access.