Falsification

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of falsifying or making false; false representation; the act of deceptively altering, adulterating, counterfeiting, misrepresenting, etc.: as, the falsification of weights and measures, of goods, or of coin; falsification of a record, or of an author's meaning.
  • noun. A showing to be false or erroneous; confutation: as, the falsification of a prediction; the falsification of a charge.
  • noun. In law: The offense of falsifying a record. See falsify, v. t.
  • noun. In equity, the act of showing an item claimed on the credit side of an account to be erroneous.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not.
  • noun. Willful misstatement or misrepresentation.
  • noun. The showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. the act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not
  • noun. knowingly false statement or wilful misrepresentation
  • noun. showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the act of determining that something is false
  • noun. any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something
  • noun. a willful perversion of facts
  • noun. the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting
  • Word Usage
    "˜falsification/corroborationā„¢ disjunction offered by Popper is far too logically neat: non-corroboration is not necessarily falsification, and falsification of a high-level scientific theory is never brought about by an isolated observation or set of observations."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning