0 past simple and past participle of validate
1 to make something officially acceptable or approved, especially after examining it:
The data is validated automatically by the computer after it has been entered.
UK It is a one-year course validated by London's City University.
He feels that today's economic problems validate his opposition to the policy.
They present an approach called validated retrieval that can dramatically reduce the number of potentially relevant cases.
They were followed for 8 years after initial assessment and validated measures of different aspects of quality of life were administered annually.
This scale fills a void by providing a validated instrument for testing the general knowledge about pain treatment of hospital staff.
The results presented here can be validated by the implementation of an abattoir survey.
Results were validated if the positive and negative controls were within instrument performance and specifications.
The results were validated with the entire data to test for bias in the sample.
In many instances, this will involve use of a structured instrument, validated for a particular condition.
It can be validated that the system closed-loop poles lie in the required region at each equilibrium point.
