provenance
- Noun. Place or source of origin.
- Noun. (archaeology) The place and time of origin of some artifact or other object. See '''Usage note''' below.
- Noun. (arts) The history of ownership of a work of art.
- Noun. (computing) the copy history of a piece of data, or the intermediate pieces of data utilized to compute a final data element, as in a database record or web site (data provenance).
- Noun. (computing) The execution history of computer processes which were utilized to compute a final piece of data (process provenance).
- Noun. (of a person) Background; history; place of origin; ancestry.
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