verifiern.
/ˈvɛrᵻfʌɪə/, U.S. /ˈvɛrəˌfaɪər/ 1.
a. One who verifies, in various senses.In quot. 1718 a translation of the Arabic title of Abubekir.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > proof, demonstration > [noun] > one who proves
demonstrationer?1589
demonstrator1593
verifier1648
prover1741
demonstrationist1828
substantiator1840
1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Een waer-maker, a Verifier, or a Maker good.
1718 S. Ockley Hist. Saracens II. 355 Then the Verifier succeeded him with the good liking of the Muslemans.
1736 R. Ainsworth Lat. Dict. i A verifier, confirmator, assertor.
1865 Reader No. 141. 283/2 Valued by some verifier of the past.
1885 E. Lynn Linton Autobiogr. Christopher Kirkland II. vii. 223 Who will keep the keeper? and who will verify the verifier?
b. That which verifies.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > proof, demonstration > [noun] > that which verifies
verifier1845
1845 J. S. Mill in Edinb. Rev. 82 384 In the philosophy of society,..we look upon history as an indispensable test and verifier of all doctrines and creeds.
1944 Mind 53 341 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.
1959 B. Russell My Philos. Devel. xv. 185 I call the fact which makes the statement true its ‘verifier’.
2. technical.
a. In the names of tools or devices (see quots.).
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1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 189 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.
a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. 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.
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society > computing and information technology > hardware > secondary storage > [noun] > punch card or tape > processing device
reproducer1885
sorter1917
interpreter1936
verifier1940
card reader1946
reader1946
tape reader1947
collator1949
tape reproducer1961
stacker1962
tabulator1970
1940 W. J. Eckert Punched Card Methods 9 The mechanical verifier is used to check the punching of the initial data on the cards.
1949 E. C. Berkeley Giant Brains iv. 47 The chief IBM punch-card machines are: the key punch, the verifier, the sorter, the interpreter, the reproducer, the collator, the multiplying punch, the calculating punch, and the tabulator.
1956 G. A. Montgomerie Digital Calculating Machines viii. 154 More complicated electrically driven verifiers are available and in some makes they resemble the electrically driven punches.
1978 J. Kellock Elem. Accounting xii. 214 After the information has been punched on to the cards, the cards are verified on a machine known as a verifier.
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