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Uncommonprovenance
The correct spelling is provenance.
How to pronounce provenance
noun
IPA: /ˈpɹɒ.və.nəns/
Say it like: Pro-ven-ans-e
The correct spelling is provenance. Place or source of origin. For example: "Many supermarkets display the provenance of their food products."
Usage Examples
“Many supermarkets display the provenance of their food products.”
“This spear is of Viking provenance.”
“The picture is of royal provenance.”
Meanings
noun
- 1.Place or source of origin.
- 2.The place and time of origin of some artifact or other object. See Usage note below.
- 3.The history of ownership of a work of art
- 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)
- 5.The execution history of computer processes which were utilized to compute a final piece of data (process provenance)
verb
- 1.To establish the provenance of something
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