Ascertainment

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of fixing or determining; a reducing to certainty.
  • noun. The act of attaining certainty; the acquirement of certain knowledge concerning something; a finding out.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The act of ascertaining.
  • Word Usage
    "By this transformation of all questions of quality into questions only of quantity, geometry is reduced to the single problem of the measurement of magnitudes, that is, the ascertainment of the equalities which exist between them."
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