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Word: provenance
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Meaning:
Noun:
- archaeology The place and time of origin of some artifact or other object. See '''Usage note''' below.
- art The history of ownership of a work of art
- computing the copy history of a piece of data, or the intermediate pieces of data utilized to compute a final data element, as in a database record or web site (data provenance)
- computing The execution history of computer processes which were utilized to compute a final piece of data (process provenance)
- (of a person) Background; history; place of origin; ancestry.
- Place or source of origin.
Source: Wiktionary
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