provenance

/ˈpɹɒ.və.nəns//ˈpɹɑ.və.nəns/

noun

  1. 1

    Place or source of origin.

    “Many supermarkets display the provenance of their food products.”
  2. 2

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

    “This spear is of Viking provenance.”
  3. 3

    The history of ownership of a work of art

    “The picture is of royal provenance.”
  4. 4

    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)

  5. 5

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

  6. 6

    (of a person) Background; history; place of origin

Synonyms

verb

  1. 1

    To establish the provenance of something

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