ConfirmationWordNet Explorer

a formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it; the two Protestant ceremonies are baptism and the Lord's Supper; in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church there are seven traditional rites accepted as instituted by Jesus: baptism and confirmation and Holy Eucharist and penance and holy orders and matrimony and extreme unction

a ceremony having religious meaning

additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct

any factual evidence that helps to establish the truth of something

a check that everyone is in bed by the time they should be

an instance of confirming something by considering information from several sources

a system of checking for errors in computer functioning

a digit representing the sum of the digits in an instance of digital data; used to check whether errors have occurred in transmission or storage