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verifier|ˈvɛrɪfaɪə(r)|
[f. verify v. + -er.]
1. a. One who verifies, in various senses.
In quot. 1718 a translation of the Arabic title of Abubekir.
1648Hexham ii, Een waer-maker, a Verifier, or a Maker good. 1718Ockley Saracens II. 355 Then the Verifier succeeded him with the good liking of the Muslemans. 1736Ainsworth i, A verifier, confirmator, assertor. 1865Reader No. 141. 283/2 Valued by some verifier of the past. 1885Mrs. E. Lynn Linton Chris. Kirkland II. vii. 223 Who will keep the keeper? and who will verify the verifier?
b. That which verifies.
1845J. S. Mill in Edin. Rev. LXXXII. 384 In the philosophy of society,..we look upon history as an indispensable test and verifier of all doctrines and creeds. 1944Mind LIII. 341 If I say ‘you are hot’, this sentence expresses my belief.., and if you are hot, it indicates your state... Your hotness can be called the ‘verifier’ of my sentence. 1959B. Russell My Philos. Devel. xv. 185, I call the fact which makes the statement true its ‘verifier’.
2. techn.
a. In the names of tools or devices (see quots.).
1881Raymond Mining Gloss., Verifier, a tool used in deep boring for detaching and bringing to the surface portions of the wall of the bore-hole at any desired depth. 1884Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl. 394 Gas verifier, an apparatus intended to verify whether the gas comes up to a given standard.
b. A keyboard device for checking whether a card or paper tape is correctly punched by indicating any discrepancy when it is inserted and the data on it keyed a second time.
1940W. J. Eckert Punched Card Methods 9 The mechanical verifier is used to check the punching of the initial data on the cards. 1949[see interpreter 5 a]. 1956G. A. Montgomerie Digital Calculating Machines viii. 154 More complicated electrically driven verifiers are available and in some makes they resemble the electrically driven punches. 1978J. Kellock Elements of Accounting xii. 214 After the information has been punched on to the cards, the cards are verified on a machine known as a verifier. |