provenance
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Is provenance a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (archaeology) The place and time of origin of some artifact or other object. See Usage notes below.Examples: "This spear is of Viking provenance."; "Further support for the Shansi provenance came in 1965, when a bronze quadruped with identical ornamentation and of approximately the same size as the Freer example was unearthed in tomb 126, at Fen-shui-ling, Ch'ang-chih, Shansi Province."countableuncountable
2. (art) The history of ownership of a work of art.Examples: "The picture is of royal provenance."countableuncountable
3. (computing) The copy history of a piece of data, or the intermediate pieces of data used to compute a final data element, as in a database record or web site (data provenance).countableuncountable
4. (computing) The execution history of computer processes which were used to compute a final piece of data (process provenance).countableuncountable
5. (of a person) Background; history; place of origin.Synonyms: ancestrycountableuncountable
Definition source: Wiktionary