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authentifying

authentifying is the present participle and gerund of authentify.

Meaning of authentify

Verb

authentify (third-person singular simple present authentifies, present participle authentifying, simple past and past participle authentified)

  1. (chiefly non-native speakers' English) To authenticate.
    • Then the device has to "phone" with the infrastructure of the supermarket, and must authentify the owner of the device in order to step forward the reading of the card.2007, Klaus Kornwachs, “Vulnerability of Converging Technologies: The Example of Ubiquitous Computing”, in Gerhard Banse, Armin Grunwald, Imre Hronszky, Gordon Nelson, editors, Assessing Societal...

Questions about authentifying

What is authentifying the present participle and gerund of?
Authentifying is the present participle and gerund of authentify.

Words near authentifying in the dictionary

  1. authentification
  2. authentifications
  3. authentified
  4. authentifies
  5. authentify
  6. authentifying
  7. authentique
  8. authentiquely
  9. authigene
  10. authigenesis
  11. authigenetic

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