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verifier

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[ver-uh-fahy-er] / ˈvɛr əˌfaɪ ər /

noun

  • verifiers
    plural
  1. someone or something that verifies.

  2. Computers, History/Historical. a tool used to check whether the data entered onto a punch card has been entered correctly.


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The University of Vienna served as an independent verifier.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 29, 2026

She would often go into different hand-counting rooms to make sure the hand-count teams — composed of a reader, a verifier and three talliers — had materials and were counting correctly.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 2, 2022

He said he wasn’t involved much in its production beyond serving as a glorified verifier of “certain information” and an extra for a scene.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2022

A QR code verifier app was made available to venues, enabling staff to check a customer's QR code.

From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2021

IBM customer engineering reference manual, preventive maintenance verifier type 055.

From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1977 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

A commission spokesman said that, in extraordinary and unforeseeable circumstances, the verification rules could allow verifiers to carry out a virtual site visit rather than a physical one.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

Her lawyers argued that there was evidence that lower-level screeners who found inconsistencies in signatures ran them up the chain of command, where they were neglected by higher level verifiers.

From Washington Times ● May 22, 2023

Participating companies and verifiers can answer your technical questions, guide you on the most cost-effective strategies and provide up-front cost estimates.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 23, 2023

This, according to a mod post on the forum, “is to give verifiers enough time to create a proper ruleset, as well as to decide which timing method and categories are appropriate.”

From The Verge ● Mar. 15, 2022

Now, we plant verifiers at suitable test points.

From Star Hunter by Andre Norton

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