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| provenance | |
| 1. subst. Place or source of origin. |  |
| Many supermarkets display the provenance of their food products. |  |
| 2. subst. (archaeology) The place and time of origin of some artifact or other object. See Usage note below. |  |
| This spear is of Viking provenance. |  |
| 3. subst. (arts) The history of ownership of a work of art |  |
| The picture is of royal provenance. |  |
| 4. subst. (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. subst. (computing) The execution history of computer processes which were utilized to compute a final piece of data (process provenance) |  |
| 6. subst. (of a person) Background; history; place of origin |  |
| 7. v. To establish the provenance of something |  |