Definition of …proof in English English dictionary
- -proof
- Used to form adjectives denoting an impervious or impenetrable quality
- 110 proof
- Stronger than strong
Attention must be paid to Dr. Ron Paul, the 110-proof libertarian in the Republican race.
- 110 proof
- Intensely; strongly
The crowd which jams the grandstands... constitutes the most informal assemblage in the world. This crowd is 110 proof democratic and unconventional. Judge, subway guard, doctor, banker,..., laborer—they can all sit in the same row.
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- artist's proof
- A very early proof impression of an engraving, or the like; -- often distinguished by the artist's signature
- bullet-proof
- Alternative spelling of bulletproof. (Capable of withstanding a direct shot, reliable, or unbreakable)
- burden of proof
- The duty of a party in a legal proceeding to prove an assertion of fact; it includes both the burden of production and the burden of persuasion; the onus probandi
- burdens of proof
- plural form of burden of proof
- explosion-proof
- Designed and constructed to withstand or minimize damage from an internal or external explosion
- galley proof
- A trial page or proof of continuous text that has not been divided into pages
- idiot-proof
- Incapable of being misused even by the most stupid or careless of users
- judgement proof
- Who is exempt from the payment of debts, either because of insufficient funds or because of protection by statute
- judgment proof
- Of a person whom a judgment cannot be enforced against
- negative proof
- A fallacious judgment that because a premise cannot be proven true, that premise must be false
- ontological proof
- Alternative name of ontological argument
- page proof
- A trial page or proof that has been made up into pages
- probabilistically checkable proof
- A reasonable proof of a computational theorem or conjecture obtained via a randomized algorithm
- proof
- A measure of the alcohol content of liquor. Originally, in Britain, 100 proof was defined as 57.1% by volume (not used anymore). In the US, 100 proof means that the alcohol content is 50% of the total volume of the liquid, and thus, absolute alcohol would be 200 proof
- proof
- Being of a certain standard as to strength; -- said of alcoholic liquors
- proof
- To proofread
- proof
- A proof sheet; a trial impression, as from type, taken for correction or examination
- proof
- Firmness of mind; stability not to be shaken
- proof
- A sequence of statements consisting of axioms, assumptions, statements already demonstrated in another proof, and statements that logically follow from previous statements in the sequence, and which concludes with a statement that is the object of the proof
- proof
- Any effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial
A given quantity of the spirits was poured upon a quantity of gunpowder in a dish and set on fire. If at the end of the combustion, the gunpowder continued dry enough, it took fire and exploded; but if it had been wetted by the water in the spirits, the flame of the alcohol went out without setting the powder on fire. This was called the proof.
- proof
- Firm or successful in resisting; as, proof against harm; waterproof; bombproof
This was a good, stout proof article of faith. -.
- proof
- Used in proving or testing; as, a proof load, or proof charge
- proof
- To knead, as in bread dough
- proof
- To make resistant, especially to water
- proof
- : Armour of excellent or tried quality, and deemed impenetrable; properly, armour of proof
- proof
- A process for testing the accuracy of an operation performed. Compare prove, transitive verb, 5
- proof
- The degree of evidence which convinces the mind of any truth or fact, and produces belief; a test by facts or arguments which induce, or tend to induce, certainty of the judgment; conclusive evidence; demonstration
Proof is the bottom line for everyone.
- proof
- The quality or state of having been proved or tried; firmness or hardness which resists impression, or doesn't yield to force; impenetrability of physical bodies
- proof by contradiction
- A proof of the following sort (1): It is desired to prove A, so assume that A is not true, and derive a contradiction from this assumption. From this it follows that "not A" implies falsity, in other words "not not A" is true. From the law of double negation, it follows that A is true. Also, a proof of the following sort (2): It is desired to prove "not A", so assume that A is true, and derive a contradiction. From this it follows that A implies falsity, in other words "not A". Both sorts of proof are valid in classical logic but only the second sort is valid in intuitionistic logic.http: //plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-intuitionistic/
- proof by example
- A logical fallacy consisting of providing one or more examples as a proof of a more general statement
- proof by exhaustion
- The indirect verification or falsification of a statement by the verification or falsification of each of the finite number of cases which arise therefrom
- proof of concept
- A short and/or incomplete realization of a certain method or idea to demonstrate its feasibility
- proof of concept
- A proof of technology or pilot project
- proof of technology
- In software development "proof of technology" (often abbreviated to PoT) is used interchangeably with "proof of concept" (PoC) or "pilot project"
- proof reader
- A person who reads proof, copy or other text, looking for errors and making corrections
- proof spirit
- A mixture of alcohol and water used as a standard for distilled drinks
- proof system
- A set of axioms and a set of inference rules which are jointly used to deduce tautologies, thereby providing proofs of them
- proof-of-concept
- Alternative spelling of proof of concept
- rabbit-proof
- That which hinders the free movement of rabbits
- sale-proof
- An item, product or idea that is nearly impossible to sell to others
That used car has one thing going for it: it is sale-proof.
- the proof is in the pudding
- Alternative form of the proof of the pudding is in the eating
- the proof of the pudding is in the eating
- The only real test of something is as what it is intended to be used for
- zero-knowledge proof
- An interactive method for one party to prove to another that a (usually mathematical) statement is true, without revealing anything other than the veracity of the statement
- earthquake-proof
- Not harmed by earthquakes
- proof
- {a} able to resist, impenetrable, rough, hard
- proof
- {n} evidence, test, a rough sheet of print
- alcoholic proof
- Alcoholic proof is an obsolete measure of how much ethanol is in an alcoholic beverage, and is approximately twice the percentage of alcohol by volume (ABV, the unit that is commonly used at percent)
- future-proof
- (adjective) (of a product) unlikely to become obsolete
- proof paper
- 1. Paper (as printing-out paper) for making proofs2. Paper used in timing an exposure