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Provenance

/ˈpɹɒ.və.nəns/

Place or source of origin.

📖 Definitions of "Provenance"

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)

verb
  1. 1

    To establish the provenance of something

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