"certification" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˌsɜːtɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˌsɝtɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/ [General-American], [ˌsɝɾɪfɪˈkeɪʃən] [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-certification.wav [US] Forms: certifications [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪʃən Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} certification (countable and uncountable, plural certifications)
  1. The act of certifying. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (act of certifying): certificación [feminine] (Asturian), сертыфіка́цыя (sjertyfikácyja) [feminine] (Belarusian), certificació [feminine] (Catalan), 認證 (Chinese Mandarin), 认证 (rènzhèng) (Chinese Mandarin), certifikace [feminine] (Czech), attestering [feminine] (Dutch), atestado (Esperanto), oikeaksi todistaminen (Finnish), vahvistus (Finnish), laillistus (Finnish), sertifiointi (Finnish), certification [feminine] (French), homologation [feminine] (French), certificazion [feminine] (Friulian), certificación [feminine] (Galician), Zertifizierung [feminine] (German), tanúsítás (Hungarian), vottun [feminine] (Icelandic), pengesahan (Indonesian), certificazione [feminine] (Italian), 証明 (shōmei) (alt: しょうめい) (Japanese), 保証 (hoshō) (alt: ほしょう) (Japanese), 認可 (ninka) (alt: にんか) (Japanese), сертификаттау (sertifikattau) (Kazakh), 증명 (jeungmyeong) (alt: 證明) (Korean), 검정 (geomjeong) (alt: 檢定) (Korean), 보증 (bojeung) (alt: 保證) (Korean), sertifikācija [feminine] (Latvian), sertifisering [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), sertifisering [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), certyfikacja [feminine] (Polish), certificação [feminine] (Portuguese), certificație [feminine] (Romanian), сертифика́ция (sertifikácija) [feminine] (Russian), certificación (Spanish), ద్రువీకరణ (druvīkaraṇa) (Telugu), sertifikasyon (Turkish), сертифіка́ція (sertyfikácija) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-certification-en-noun-XsitU8SQ Disambiguation of 'act of certifying': 96 2 2
  2. The granting of a certificate. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-certification-en-noun-Y7490l0S
  3. A professional qualification that certifies a person's ability. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: homologation
    Sense id: en-certification-en-noun-aPZCg9bL Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 6 31 63
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hyponyms: organic certification, product certification, professional certification, self-certification Derived forms: post-certification

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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "act of certifying",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "certificazione"
    },
    {
      "alt": "しょうめい",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "shōmei",
      "sense": "act of certifying",
      "word": "証明"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ほしょう",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "hoshō",
      "sense": "act of certifying",
      "word": "保証"
    },
    {
      "alt": "にんか",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "ninka",
      "sense": "act of certifying",
      "word": "認可"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "sertifikattau",
      "sense": "act of certifying",
      "word": "сертификаттау"
    },
    {
      "alt": "證明",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "jeungmyeong",
      "sense": "act of certifying",
      "word": "증명"
    },
    {
      "alt": "檢定",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "geomjeong",
      "sense": "act of certifying",
      "word": "검정"
    },
    {
      "alt": "保證",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "bojeung",
      "sense": "act of certifying",
      "word": "보증"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "act of certifying",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sertifikācija"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "act of certifying",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sertifisering"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "act of certifying",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sertifisering"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "act of certifying",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "certyfikacja"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "act of certifying",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "certificação"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "act of certifying",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "certificație"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sertifikácija",
      "sense": "act of certifying",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "сертифика́ция"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "act of certifying",
      "word": "certificación"
    },
    {
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "druvīkaraṇa",
      "sense": "act of certifying",
      "word": "ద్రువీకరణ"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "act of certifying",
      "word": "sertifikasyon"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "sertyfikácija",
      "sense": "act of certifying",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "сертифіка́ція"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "certification"
  ],
  "word": "certification"
}

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