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to validate

to validate

14 4.5
To check that information follows the rules before it is accepted
  • verb
  • /ˈvælɪˌdeɪt/
  • Specialized
translation icon : validar
  • Before launching the application, we must validate the user input to ensure it meets all required formats.
  • validate a model
  • empirically validated
  • method for validating

And how do we actually validate these predictions?

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Examples

  • For example, the wheat data are being used to validate wheat growth models developed by several cooperators.

    Academic text (1995)
  • However, developing the database and validating the system would require substantial expenditures of human and financial resources.

    Academic text (1996)
  • So, but with that model now we have to validate that model.

  • But then science exists to test them, to validate them, and then to figure out how to use them.

  • So how do you validate sensors?

  • And how do we actually validate these predictions?

  • More work needs to be done in this area to develop and validate indicators.

    Academic text (2016)
  • And then how can I either debunk or validate that information?

  • Moreover, real-time monitoring is very valuable to validate the numerical models and understand the physical mechanisms.

    Academic text (2018)
  • Performance on the NSB also provides guidance for developing and validating early interventions in number competence.

    Academic text (2010)

Antonyms

839 1.9

Refuse to accept someone or something

to invalidate
  • Formal
33 6.1

To make a document or agreement have no legal effect anymore

How Thorough

to certify
  • Formal
192 3.9
to validate
  • Specialized
14 4.5
to inspect
202 2.5
to verify
251 3.5
to check
1.0
to scan
127 2.7

Surface Forms

validate infinitive
validated past
validated past participle
validating present participle
validates third person singular

Morphology

validate = valid (transparent) = valid + ate

Same derivation: '-ate' creates a verb meaning to make, confirm, or establish something as valid; the IT sense is a domain-specific application of this general meaning.

Etymology

In computing, to validate data means to check it meets the rules; the word comes from Latin validus 'strong' and the same root appears in the word valid. So validating data is like making sure it is 'good' or acceptable before the system uses it.