different between investigation vs verification

English

Etymology

From Middle English [Term?], from Old French investigacion, from Latin investigatio.Morphologically investigate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?v?st???e???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

investigation (countable and uncountable, plural investigations)

1. The act of investigating; the process of inquiring into or following up; research, especially patient or thorough inquiry or examination

   The investigation into the crime has led to various leads as well as plenty of dead ends.

   Despite thorough investigation, the perpetrator of the attacks remains unknown.

Related terms

• investigate

Translations

French

Etymology

From Old French investigacion, from Latin investigatio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.v?s.ti.?a.sj??/

Noun

investigation f (plural investigations)

1. investigation, examination

Further reading

• “investigation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Interlingua

Noun

investigation (plural investigationes)

1. investigation

English

Etymology

From Middle French vérification, from Medieval Latin verificatio

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

verification (countable and uncountable, plural verifications)

1. The act of verifying.
2. The state of being verified.
3. Confirmation; authentication.

   The detective needs verification of your whereabouts last night.

4. (law) A formal phrase used in concluding a plea, to denote confirmation by evidence.
5. (mathematics) The operation of testing the equation of a problem, to see whether it truly expresses the conditions of the problem.

Derived terms

• verification principle

Related terms

Translations

See also

• Formal verification on Wikipedia.Wikipedia