ASCERTAINMENT

Definition: ASCERTAINMENT

ASCERTAINMENT

Noun

1. The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "ASCERTAINMENT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Discovery	Noun: discovery, detection, disenchantment; ascertainment, disclosure, find, revelation.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Title
Books	Ascertainment of children with visual handicaps; report of the Working Party appointed by the Secretary of State for Scotland (reference) The Practical Philosophy: Being the Philosophy of the Feelings, of the Will, and of the Con-Science, With the Ascertainment of Practicular Rights and Duties (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Prevalence estimates range from 2.5 million to 6.5 million individuals living with the consequences of TBI. These estimates, however, suffer from ascertainment bias since they are based exclusively on information about hospitalized patients and those who die before hospitalization. (references)
		It must be borne in mind that cases are usually recognized by HPS surveillance or by the dramatic manifestations of HPS, so there is a strong ascertainment bias. Until there is at least a common protocol for evaluating cases in South America, the different manifestations reported by various groups need to be interpreted cautiously. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
John Quincy Adams	1825-1829	Some progress has been made under the authority of various acts of Congress in the ascertainment and establishment of those titles, but claims to a very large extent remain unadjusted.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"ASCERTAINMENT" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ASCERTAINMENT" is used about 38 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	38	55,818

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Language		Translations for "ASCERTAINMENT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		verifikim (check, verification, vetting), vërtetim (attestation, authentication, certificate, certification, confirmation, corroboration, demonstration, diploma, endorsement, indorsation, indorsement, legalization, note, receipt, substantiation, verification), sigurim (cover, coverage, floater, indemnity, insurance, procuration, procurement, reassurance, reversion, safeguard, safety, security), konstantim. (various references)

Arabic		‏تحقيق (come true, consummation, enquiry, exploration, fruition, fulfillment, fulfilment, implementing, inquest, inquiry, inquisition, investigation, probe, probing, quest, realization, survey, verification). (various references)

Bulgarian		установяване (establishment, institution, location, prescription, settlement), констатация, констатиране. (various references)

Chinese		查明. (various references)

Czech		zjištìní (detection, establishment, finding, location). (various references)

Dutch		toerekening. (various references)

French		constatation. (various references)

German		feststellung (assessment, comment, conclusion, diagnosis, establishment, identification, observation, remark, statement), Ermittlung (ascertaining, determination, enquiry, establishment, inquiry, investigation, snapping, tracing). (various references)

Greek		βεβαίωση (affirmation, certificate, certification, confirmation, predicative, substantiation, testimony), διαπίστωση. (various references)

Hungarian		megállapítás (assignation, conclusion, conditioning, determining, establishing, establishment, estimate, fixation, fixing, registering, statement, stipulation, verification). (various references)

Indonesian		penetapan (enactment). (various references)

Italian		accertamento (assessment, snapping). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		見極め , 確かめ (certification, confirmation). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		たしかめ (certification, confirmation), みきわめ. (various references)

Manx		feddyn magh (ascertain, determine, dig out, discover, discovery, elicit, invent, invention, seek out). (various references)

Pig Latin		ascertainmentay

Portuguese		averiguação (inquest, inquiry, recognition), determinação (dissolution, resolution, resolve, settlement, will). (various references)

Russian		выяснение (clarification). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		konstatacija. (various references)

Spanish		averiguación (enquiry), comprobación (checkup, proof, substantiation, testing, verification). (various references)

Turkish		aslını anlama, araştırma (checkback, checkover, checkup, discourse, disquisition, exploration, explorative, exploratory, inquiries, inquiry, inquisitional, inquisitorial, investigation, investigative, probe, pursuit, quest, research, review, search, study), ortaya çıkarma (disclosure, discovery, expose, exposure), bulma (accommodation, detection, find, finding, invention, obtainment, procurement, procuring). (various references)

Ukrainian		установлення (mounting), з'ясування (clarification), засвідчення (certification). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự xác định (determination), sự thấy chắc, sự tìm hiểu chắc chắn, sự biết chắc. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "ASCERTAINMENT": ascertainments. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "ASCERTAINMENT" (pronounced 'As`cer*tain"ment'): Abasement, Abashment, Abatement, Abetment, Abjurement, Abodement, Aborsement, Abortment, Abridgment, Absentment, Abutment, Accordment, Accouchement, Accroachment, Accrument, Accusement, Acquirement, Acquitment, Adjournment, Adjudgment, Adjustment, Adorement, Adornment, Advancement, Advisement, Affeerment, Afforcement, Affordment, Affrayment, Affreightment, Affrightment, Aggroupment, Agistment, Agreement, Agroupment, Ailment, Alignment, Alinement, Allayment, Allegement, Allignment, Allotment, Allurement, Amassment, Amazement, Amendment, Amercement, Amusement, Annexment, Announcement. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-e-i-m-n-n-r-s-t-t"
	-2 letters: remittances, tetracaines.
	-3 letters: anamnestic, ancientest, catenaries, certainest, emittances, enactments, entertains, incarnates, increments, intercaste, interments, martensite, nectarines, reanimates, remittance, tenantries, terminates, tetracaine, transience.
	-4 letters: acierates, ancienter, animaters, anteaters, antimeres, ascertain, attainers, canneries, cannister, caseinate, catamites, catenates, catteries, centiares, cisternae, craniates, creamiest, creatines, emaciates, emittance, enactment, entertain, entrances, estaminet, incarnate, incenters, increment, instanter, interacts, interment.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-e-i-m-n-n-r-s-t-t"
	+1 letter: ascertainments, recontaminates.
	+4 letters: magnetoresistance, transcendentalism.
	+5 letters: magnetoresistances, transcendentalisms.
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