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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Examination of written documents to determine authorship or authenticity.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The study of the essential character of documents, and the determination of the individual character of handwriting.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The study of documents and handwriting in order to verify authorship or authenticity

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the scientific study of documents and handwriting etc. especially to determine authorship or authenticity

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