Proof
Definition of Proof
n. | 1. | | | 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.I'll have some proof. - Shak. | | 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. | (Print.) A trial impression, as from type, taken for correction or examination; - called also proof sheet. | | 6. | (Math.) 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. | a. | 1. | Used in proving or testing; as, a proof load, or proof charge. | | 2. | Firm or successful in resisting; as, proof against harm; waterproof; bombproof. | | 3. | Being of a certain standard as to strength; - said of alcoholic liquors.Proof sheet | See Proof, n., 5. |
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