STEM Dictionary

Information Technology:

AC Power

Ad Hoc

Algorithm

Antenna

Antivirus

Application Layer

Auditing

Authentication

Authorization

Authentication

Definition

the act of confirming the truth of an attribute of a datum or entity

Sentence

My software asks for two authentications: password and key.

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This material is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation under Award Numbers 1104229, 1501756, and 1902474.