Associations to the word «Provenance»

Wiktionary

PROVENANCE, noun. Place or source of origin.
PROVENANCE, noun. (archaeology) The place and time of origin of some artifact or other object. See Usage note below.
PROVENANCE, noun. (arts) The history of ownership of a work of art
PROVENANCE, noun. (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)
PROVENANCE, noun. (computing) The execution history of computer processes which were utilized to compute a final piece of data (process provenance)
PROVENANCE, noun. (of a person) Background; history; place of origin; ancestry.
PROVENANCE, verb. To establish the provenance of something

Dictionary definition

PROVENANCE, noun. Where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence; "the birthplace of civilization".

Wise words

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
Pythagoras