To give official sanction, confirmation, or approval to.

The state of being confirmed by examination and provision of objective evidence that the particular requirements for a specific intended use have been met. Validation is normally performed on the final product under defined operating conditions, and when necessary, performed in earlier production stages. Multiple validations may be carried out if there are different intended uses.

A condition is considered validated if sufficient information has been provided by the validation source to confirm that the condition currently exists or has existed at some time.

Equivalent to "certified status". The status granted to an Ada processor by the award of an ACAC (see Section 5.4). We define this equivalent term to correspond to common usage in the Ada community.

declared or made legally valid; "a validated claim"