"falsification" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: falsifications [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪʃən Etymology: false + -ification Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|false|ification}} false + -ification Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} falsification (countable and uncountable, plural falsifications)
  1. The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (the act of making false): تَزْيِيف (tazyīf) [masculine] (Arabic), фальсіфіка́цыя (falʹsifikácyja) [feminine] (Belarusian), фалшифика́ция (falšifikácija) [feminine] (Bulgarian), falsificació [feminine] (Catalan), 偽造 (Chinese Mandarin), 伪造 (wěizào) (Chinese Mandarin), falšování [neuter] (Czech), vervalsen (Dutch), falsado (Esperanto), võltsing (Estonian), falsification [feminine] (French), ფალსიფიკაცია (palsipiḳacia) (Georgian), გაყალბება (gaq̇albeba) (Georgian), Fälschung [feminine] (German), Falsifikation [feminine] (German), falsigo (Ido), 偽造 (gizō) (Japanese), 改竄 (kaizan) (Japanese), 위조 (wijo) (alt: 僞造) (Korean), tahuperatanga (Maori), whakatapehatanga (Maori), aweketanga (Maori), fałszowanie [neuter] (Polish), fałszerstwo [neuter] (Polish), falsyfikacja [feminine] (Polish), falsificação [feminine] (Portuguese), фальсифика́ция (falʹsifikácija) [feminine] (Russian), falšovanie [neuter] (Slovak), falsificación [feminine] (Spanish), sahtecilik (Turkish), фальсифіка́ція (falʹsyfikácija) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-falsification-en-noun-uNR1ia7F Disambiguation of 'the act of making false': 58 10 31
  2. A knowingly false statement or wilful misrepresentation. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (intentionally false statement or wilful misrepresentation): saxtakarlıq (Azerbaijani), изопаче́ние (izopačénie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), aweketanga (Maori), falsidade [feminine] (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-falsification-en-noun-vBfROXlZ Disambiguation of 'intentionally false statement or wilful misrepresentation': 10 82 8
  3. The act of showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-falsification-en-noun-iqzmVTjo Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ification Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 23 3 74 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ification: 26 6 68
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Related terms: falsify

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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "intentionally false statement or wilful misrepresentation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "falsidade"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "falsification"
  ],
  "word": "falsification"
}

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