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Provenance

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Place of origin; derivation.

n. The history of the ownership of an object, especially when documented or authenticated. Used of artworks, antiques, and books.

n. The records or documents authenticating such an object or the history of its ownership.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Place or source of origin.

n. The place and time of origin of some artifact or other object. See Usage note below.

n. The history of ownership of a work of art

n. The copy history of a piece of data, or the intermediate pieces of data utilized to compute a final data element, as in a database record or web site (data provenance)

n. The execution history of computer processes which were utilized to compute a final piece of data (process provenance)

n. Background; history; place of origin; ancestry.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. Origin; source; provenience.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. Origin; source or quarter from which anything comes; provenience: especially in the sense of ‘place of manufacture, production, or discovery.’

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence

Word Usage

"The simplest way to verify provenance is by looking for items that come with a Certificate of Authenticity or a Letter of Authenticity (often abbreviated to COA and LOA)."

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Cross Reference

provenience

Synonym

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origin source provenience

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