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prover

noun

Etymology

From prove + -er.

  1. derived from *pro-bʰuH-s✻
  2. derived from probō
  3. derived from prover
  4. inherited from prōfian
  5. inherited from proven
  6. formed as prover — “prove + -er”

Definitions

  1. One who or that which proves.

    • "This is a test bed for the technology, so ultimately while we could convert more trains like this, there's a limited number," said Green. "We see this more as a technology prover to allow that, rather to be put into a new train project."

  2. A person, device, or program that performs logical or mathematical proofs.

    • The prover belongs to a family of checking devices, Turing machines or sequences of these, that are capable of establishing the probable correctness of solutions for very large classes of problems.

  3. A person who experimentally ingests a substance and then catalogues every effect or…

    A person who experimentally ingests a substance and then catalogues every effect or symptom.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for prover. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA