provenance

  1. Noun.  Place or source of origin.
  2. Noun.  (archaeology) The place and time of origin of some artifact or other object. See '''Usage note''' below.
  3. Noun.  (arts) The history of ownership of a work of art.
  4. 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).
  5. Noun.  (computing) The execution history of computer processes which were utilized to compute a final piece of data (process provenance).
  6. Noun.  (of a person) Background; history; place of origin; ancestry.

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