certification

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌsɜːtɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌsɝtɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/, [ˌsɝɾɪfɪˈkeɪʃən]

  • Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: cer‧ti‧fi‧ca‧tion
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

certification (countable and uncountable, plural certifications)

1. The act of certifying.
2. The granting of a certificate.
3. A professional qualification that certifies a person's ability.

   Synonym: homologation

   You do not possess the certifications required for this post.

Hyponyms

• organic certification
• product certification
• professional certification
• self-certification

Derived terms

• decertification
• noncertification
• post-certification
• precertification
• recertification

Translations

act of certifying

• Asturian: certificación f
• Belarusian: сертыфіка́цыя f (sjertyfikácyja)
• Catalan: certificació f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 認證 / 认证 (zh) (rènzhèng)

• Czech: certifikace f
• Dutch: attestering (nl) f
• Esperanto: atestado
• Finnish: oikeaksi todistaminen, vahvistus (fi), laillistus (fi), sertifiointi (fi)
• French: certification (fr) f, homologation (fr) f
• Friulian: certificazion f
• Galician: certificación (gl) f
• German: Zertifizierung (de) f
• Hungarian: tanúsítás (hu)
• Icelandic: vottun f
• Indonesian: pengesahan (id)
• Italian: certificazione (it) f
• Japanese: 証明 (ja) (しょうめい, shōmei), 保証 (ja) (ほしょう, hoshō), 認可 (ja) (にんか, ninka)
• Kazakh: сертификаттау (sertifikattau)
• Korean: 증명(證明) (ko) (jeungmyeong), 검정(檢定) (ko) (geomjeong), 보증(保證) (ko) (bojeung)
• Latvian: sertifikācija f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sertifisering m or f

  Nynorsk: sertifisering f

• Polish: certyfikacja f
• Portuguese: certificação (pt) f
• Romanian: certificație f
• Russian: сертифика́ция (ru) f (sertifikácija)
• Spanish: certificación (es)
• Telugu: ద్రువీకరణ (druvīkaraṇa)
• Turkish: sertifikasyon (tr)
• Ukrainian: сертифіка́ція f (sertyfikácija)

Anagrams

• rectification

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛʁ.ti.fi.ka.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

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Noun

certification f (plural certifications)

1. certification (all meanings)

Related terms

• certifier
• certificat

Further reading

• “certification”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• rectification