📖 Definitions of "Provenance"
noun
- 1
Place or source of origin.
"Many supermarkets display the provenance of their food products."
- 2
The place and time of origin of some artifact or other object. See Usage note below.
"This spear is of Viking provenance."
- 3
The history of ownership of a work of art
"The picture is of royal provenance."
- 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)
verb
- 1
To establish the provenance of something
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