English
Etymology
Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
English authentication
From authenticate + -ation.
Pronunciation
Noun
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
Derived terms
Translations
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:
- Mandarin: 認證 / 认证 (zh) (rènzhèng), 鑒權 / 鉴权 (jiànquán)
- 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)
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something which validates or confirms the authenticity of something
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