Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of falsifying or making false; false representation; the act of deceptively altering, adulterating, counterfeiting, misrepresenting, etc.: as, the falsification of weights and measures, of goods, or of coin; falsification of a record, or of an author's meaning.
  • noun A showing to be false or erroneous; confutation: as, the falsification of a prediction; the falsification of a charge.
  • noun In law: The offense of falsifying a record. See falsify, v. t.
  • noun In equity, the act of showing an item claimed on the credit side of an account to be erroneous.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not.
  • noun Willful misstatement or misrepresentation.
  • noun (Equity) The showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong.

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

  • noun the act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not
  • noun knowingly false statement or wilful misrepresentation
  • noun showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong

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

  • noun the act of determining that something is false
  • noun any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something
  • noun a willful perversion of facts
  • noun the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting

Etymologies

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false +‎ -ification

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Examples

  • ˜falsification/corroboration™ disjunction offered by Popper is far too logically neat: non-corroboration is not necessarily falsification, and falsification of a high-level scientific theory is never brought about by an isolated observation or set of observations.

    Karl Popper Thornton, Stephen 2009

  • Scientists know that falsification is the way to determine if something is false.

    Attached to Strings 2009

  • I should point out, Coyne, for all his bravdo about science and falsification, is affiliated with a discipline (evolutionary biology) that is notorious for its lack of falsifiability and lack of direct experimental evidences, and thus its lack of real science.

    Convincing Evidence for God 2010

  • But in the end, exact solution, including calculations allowing exact falsification, is impossible, by principle, since people cannot exist when the only energy available is zero-point energy.

    Bukiet on Brooklyn Books Hal Duncan 2009

  • This is known as falsification, which is required by the scientific method.

    John Hunter on Sea Levels « Climate Audit 2006

  • "If it is shown that there was a deliberate and long-term falsification of accounts, it is possible it will be delisted like Seibu Railways," said Wataru Tanaka, a law professor at Tokyo University, referring to a 2004 case involving falsified financial documents.

    Reuters: Top News 2011

  • "If it is shown that there was a deliberate and long-term falsification of accounts, it is possible it will be delisted like Seibu Railways," said Wataru Tanaka, a law professor at Tokyo University, referring to a 2004 case involving falsified financial documents.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • "If it is shown that there was a deliberate and long-term falsification of accounts, it is possible it will be delisted like Seibu Railways," said Wataru Tanaka, a law professor at Tokyo University, referring to a 2004 case involving falsified financial documents.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • "If it is shown that there was a deliberate and long-term falsification of accounts, it is possible it will be delisted like Seibu Railways," said Wataru Tanaka, a law professor at Tokyo University, referring to a 2004 case involving falsified financial documents.

    Reuters: Top News 2011

  • "If it is shown that there was a deliberate and long-term falsification of accounts, it is possible it will be delisted like Seibu Railways," said Wataru Tanaka, a law professor at Tokyo University, referring to a 2004 case involving falsified financial documents.

    Reuters: Top News 2011

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