meaning of proof

1. Any effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.
2. That degree of evidence which convinces the mind of any truth or fact, and produces belief; a test by facts or arguments that induce, or tend to induce, certainty of the judgment; conclusive evidence; demonstration.
3. The quality or state of having been proved or tried; firmness or hardness that resists impression, or does not yield to force; impenetrability of physical bodies.
4. Firmness of mind; stability not to be shaken.
5. A trial impression, as from type, taken for correction or examination; -- called also proof sheet.
6. A process for testing the accuracy of an operation performed. Cf. Prove, v. t. , 5.
7. Armor of excellent or tried quality, and deemed impenetrable; properly, armor of proof.
8. Used in proving or testing; as, a proof load, or proof charge.
9. Firm or successful in resisting; as, proof against harm; waterproof; bombproof.
10. Being of a certain standard as to strength; -- said of alcoholic liquors.
11. proof 1. A finite sequence of well-formed formulas, F1, F2, . . . Fn, where each Fi either is an axiom, or follows by some rule of inference from some of the previous Fs, and Fn is the statement being proved. See also proof theory. 2. A left-associative natural language parser by Craig R. Latta berkeley. edu>. Ported to Decstation 3100, Sun-4. ftp://scam. berkeley. edu/pub/src/local/proof/. E-mail: berkeley. edu>. Mailing list: proof-requestf@xcf. berkeley. edu Subject: add me.
12. the act of validating; finding or testing the truth of something

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