| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Present participle conjugation of the verb certificate.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (certificate) | 1. Present someone with a certificate.[Wordnet]. 2. Authorize by certificate.[Wordnet]. 3. To verify or vouch for by certificate.[Websters]. 4. To furnish with a certificate; as, to certificate the captain of a vessel; a certificated teacher.[Websters]. 5. Base verb from the following inflections: certificating, certificated, certificates, certificater, certificaters, certificatingly and certificatedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "CERTIFICATING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
Specialty Definition: certificate
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Aerospace | Security data sealed by an Authority. The certificate contains the security data and the seal. (references) | ||
| Computing | The public keys of a user, together with some other information, rendered unforgeable by encipherment with the secret key of the certification authority which issued it. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Energy | A type of permit for public convenience and necessity issued by a utility commission, which authorizes a utility or regulated company to engage in business, construct facilities, provide some services, or abandon service. (references) | ||
| Engineering & Technology | A statement or certification, either affixed to or marked on a container, showing information concerning the container and its contents to show compliance with shipping regulations. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Finance | 1: A written or printed certificate issued by the company registrar stating the number of securities owned by the holder. Source: European Union. (references) | 2: (1) a piece of paper that is evidence of ownership. A stock certificate is evidence of ownership of one or more shares of a corporation. A savings certificate is evidence that the holder owns a savings account, usually one in which a fixed amount of funds is deposited for a specified term. (2) a form of paper money. It is a receipt for silver or gold held by the government. U.S. silver certificates are the best known. The privilege to redeem the paper certificate for the gold or silver backing it was revoked by Congress on June 14, 1968. (3) any written or printed document that can be used as proof of a fact. (references) | |
| Law | CERTIFICATE, practice. 1. A writing made in any court, and properly authenticated, to give notice to another court of anything done therein; or it is a writing by which an officer or other person bears testimony that a fact has or has not taken place. 2. There are two kinds of certificates; those required by the law, and those which are merely voluntary. Of the first kind are certificates given to an insolvent of his discharge, and those given to aliens, that they have been naturalized. Voluntary certificates are those which are not required by law, but which are given of the mere motion of the party. The former are evidence of the facts therein mentioned, while the latter are not entitled to any credit, because the facts certified, may be proved in the usual way under the solemnity of an oath or affirmation. 2 Com. Dig. 306; Ayl. Parerg. 157; Greenl. Ev. 498. (references) | ||
| Math | (1) Extra information so the correctness of an answer to a decision problem can be quickly checked. (2) For any graph property P and graph G, a certificate for G is a graph G' such that G has property P if and only if G' has the property. (references) | ||
| Physics | A document that has been digitally signed by a trusted party. In the Akenti system, a certificate may assert identity (identity certificate), attest to an attribute of a subject (attribute certificate), or state a condition to be met (use-condition certificate). (references) | ||
| Shipping | - A document certifying that merchandise (such as of Inspection perishable goods) was in good condition immediately prior to its shipment. - The document issued by the U.S. Coast Guard certifying an American flag vessel's compliance with applicable laws and regulations. (references) | ||
| Telecommunications | Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity. (references) | ||
| Transportation | 1: A valid document, by whatever name it may be known, issued by or under the authority of the competent authority of a Member State or recognized by the authority, authorizing the holder to serve as stated in this document or as authorized by national regulations, where this document certifies a minimum level of training for each occupation. Source: European Union. (references) | 2: 1) A document certifying that merchandise (such as of Inspection perishable goods) was in good condition immediately prior to its shipment. 2) The document issued by the U.S. Coast Guard certifying an American flag vessel's compliance with applicable laws and regulations. (references) | |
| Wikipedic | A certificate is an official document affirming some fact. For example, a birth certificate or death certificate testifies to basic facts regarding a person's birth or death. A certificate may also certify that a person has received specific education or has passed a test. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: certificate
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Adjusted Service Certificate Law | The Adjusted Service Certificate Law refers to the law passed in 1924 by the US government that granted World War I veterans "bonus" certificates that would be redeemable for cash in twenty years. At the time, the Veterans of Foreign Wars had argued that it was senseless to promise a starving man that he would get money for food two decades later. (references) | ||
| Advanced Vocational Certificate of Education | Advanced Vocational Certificate of Education, usually shorted to Advanced VCE or AVCE, is a vocational qualification available in British Further Education institutions. (references) | ||
| Air worthiness certificate | An air worthiness certificate is issued in the United Kingdom by the Civil Aviation Authority. It is required on any machine that is capable of powered flight carry a person, before such a machine is allowed to fly over UK territory. The CAA, an independent quango, monitors and regulates all such affairs regarding civilian aircraft, air safety, and airspace, as well as air crash investigation. (references) | ||
| Australian Certificate of Education | The Australian Certificate of Education (ACE) is a new name proposed by the Australian state and territory education ministers to describe the various versions of the Senior Secondary Certificate of Education overseen by the Australian Qualifications Framework. This name is proposed primarily for overseas marketing purposes. (references) | ||
| Authorization certificate | In computer security, an authorization certificate (also known as an attribute certificate) is a digital document that describes a written permission from the issuer to use a service or a resource that the issuer controls or has access to use. The permission can be delegated. (references) | ||
| Birth certificate | A copy of the official document giving details of a person's birth. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Bond certificate | A certificate of debt (usually interest-bearing or discounted) that is issued by a government or corporation in order to raise money; the issuer is required to pay a fixed sum annually until maturity and then a fixed sum to repay the principal. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Certificate (HETAC) | The HETAC One-Year Certificate is a subdegree qualification offered by the Higher Education and Training Awards Council as a one year full time course in a specific discipline, below the standard of the National Certificate or National Diploma. (references) | ||
| Certificate authority | In cryptography, a certificate authority or certification authority (CA) is an entity which issues digital certificates for use by other parties. It is an example of a trusted third party. CA's are characteristic of many public key infrastructure (PKI) schemes. (references) | ||
| Certificate for Students Achieving the Proficiency Level of Upper Secondary School Graduates | Certificate for Students Achieving the Proficiency Level of Upper Secondary School Graduates (高等学校卒業程度認定試験) is a examination, taken by individuals who did not graduate upper secondary school(High school). This exam is provided by Lifelong Learning Promotion Division, Lifelong Learning Policy Bureau, MEXT, Japan, started in 2005 as the replacement of the University Entrance Qualification Examination which were held until 2004 in Japan. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: certificate
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Airman certificate | Energy | A document issued by the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration certifying that the holder complies with the regulations governing the capacity in which the certificate authorizes the holder to act as an airman in connection with aircraft. (references) | |
| All savers certificate | Finance | A one-year certificate of deposit account, with a fixed rate tied to new Treasury bills, issued from October 1, 1981, through December 31, 1982, with a minimum deposit of $500. The saver received a once-in-a-lifetime exemption from federal income taxes for ASC earnings of up to $1,000 ($2,000 on a joint return). All savers certificates were authorized by the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 as a means of attracting funds primarily to thrift institutions. (references) | |
| Attribute certificate | Physics | A certificate that asserts something about its subject, namely, that the subject possesses the named attribute. An attribute certificate usually applies to a particular use-condition. Although no such use-condition need exist, an attribute certificate without a corresponding use-condition is useless in Akenti. An attribute certificate allows a user attribute certifier to provide a user characteristic that matches a use-condition in a natural and convenient way. (references) | |
| Baptismal Certificate | Administration | A religious record of an your birth or baptism. In some situations we can use a baptismal certificate to establish your age. See Birth Certificate or Evidence requirements. (references) | |
| Birth certificate | Business | Official record of an individual birth, certified by a physician, and including birth date, place of birth, parentage, and other required identifying data, filed with the local registrar of vital statistics or with the Department of State for infants born of American parents oversees. (references) | |
| Birth certificate | History & Folklore | The official form giving details of the time and place of a person's birth, and his or her name, sex, mother's name and(usually)father's name. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Birth certificate | Physics | See Long-form birth certificate. (references) | |
| Bond certificate | Finance | A fixed-interest security issued by limited companies in return for long-term loans; a document evidencing loan to a corporation or a company. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Carrier's Certificate | Economics | (USA) A document issued by a carrier providing the particulars of a shipment and designating to customs who may make a customs entry on that shipment.. (references) | |
| Carrier's certificate | Shipping | A certificate required by U. S. Customs to release cargo properly to the correct party. (references) | |
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