Prover
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 One who or that which proves.
""This is a test bed for the technology, so ultimately while we could convert more trains like this, there's a limited number," said Green. "We see this more as a technology prover to allow that, rather to be put into a new train project.""
- 2 A person, device, or program that performs logical or mathematical proofs.
"The prover belongs to a family of checking devices, Turing machines or sequences of these, that are capable of establishing the probable correctness of solutions for very large classes of problems."
- 3 A person who experimentally ingests a substance and then catalogues every effect or symptom.
Example
More examples""This is a test bed for the technology, so ultimately while we could convert more trains like this, there's a limited number," said Green. "We see this more as a technology prover to allow that, rather to be put into a new train project.""
Etymology
From prove + -er.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.