certificates

Noun

certificate (plural certificates)

1. A document containing a certified statement.
2. A document evidencing ownership or debt.
3. A document serving as evidence that a person has completed an educational course, issued either by an institution not authorised to grant diplomas, or to a student not qualifying for a diploma.
4. The information needed in order to verify a positive answer to a problem.
5. (Ireland, UK) A motion picture age rating.
   • The film is certificate 15.
6. (obsolete) Synonym of certification.
   • [W]herfoꝛe, ſeing thei be clere in cõſcience, the cauſe weightie, the cõfutation ouerlong, ⁊ can not be aunſwered, befoꝛe they make certificat home to their cities, they deſyꝛe fyꝛſt therfoꝛe to haue a copie, ſecondarely, that credite be not geuen to this accuſation, before ſuche tyme as their...1560 October 5 (Gregorian calendar), John Sledaine [i.e., Johannes Sleidanus], “The .VJ. Booke”, in Ihon [i.e., John] Daus, transl., A Famouse Cronicle of Oure Time, Called Sleidanes Commentaries...

   Synonyms:

   certification

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