noun Download 🔗Share Place or source of origin. Examples : "Many supermarkets display the provenance of their food products." history place Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The place and time of origin of some artifact or other object. See Usage note below. Examples : "This spear is of Viking provenance." history archaeology art property item Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The history of ownership of a work of art Examples : "The picture is of royal provenance." art property history Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share 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) Examples : "The librarian checked the digital provenance of the article to ensure it came from a reliable academic journal and hadn't been altered. " computing technology history info Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The execution history of computer processes which were utilized to compute a final piece of data (process provenance) Examples : "To understand why the tax form showed that value, we need to examine the provenance of the calculation: which spreadsheets were used, and what formulas were applied at each step. " computing technology process history machine system internet info Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (of a person) Background; history; place of origin Examples : "The historian investigated the artist's provenance to understand how her childhood in rural Italy influenced her paintings. " history person place family Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To establish the provenance of something Examples : "The museum curator worked hard to provenance the ancient artifact, tracing its history back to its original discovery. " history property art archaeology Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
