proof
/pɹuːf/
An effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial
- plural
- proofs
Meanings
- 1
An effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial
We don't have any proof.
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Do you have any proof?
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- 2
The degree of evidence which convinces the mind of any truth or fact, and produces belief; a test by facts or arguments which induce, or tend to induce, certainty of the judgment; conclusive evidence; demonstration
- 3
The quality or state of having been proved or tried; firmness or hardness which resists impression, or does not yield to force; impenetrability of physical bodies
- 4
Experience of somethingrare
- 5
Firmness of mind; stability not to be shakenrare
- 6
A proof sheet; a trial impression, as from type, taken for correction or examinationrare
- 7
A limited-run high-quality strike of a particular coin, originally as a test run, although nowadays mostly for collectors' setsrare
- 8
A sequence of statements consisting of axioms, assumptions, statements already demonstrated in another proof, and statements that logically follow from previous statements in the sequence, and which concludes with a statement that is the object of the proofrare
- 9
A process for testing the accuracy of an operation performed. Compare prove, transitive verb, 5rare
- 10
Armour of excellent or tried quality, and deemed impenetrable; properly, armour of proofrare