Many supermarkets display theprovenance of their food products.
2015, James Lambert, “Lexicography as a teaching tool: A Hong Kong case study”, in Lan Li, Jamie McKeown, Liming Liu, editors,Dictionaries and corpora: Innovations in reference science. Proceedings of ASIALEX 2015 Hong Kong, Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, page147:
Within this melee of intersections between English and Cantonese, the students, being themselves bilingually fluent, were able to navigate with perfect ease in communicative contexts where theprovenance of a certain term or expression matters little.
(archaeology) The place and time of origin of someartifact or other object. SeeUsage notes below.
Further support for the Shansiprovenance came in 1965, when a bronze quadruped with identical ornamentation and of approximately the same size as the Freer example was unearthed in tomb 126, at Fen-shui-ling, Ch'ang-chih, Shansi Province.
(computing) The copy history of a piece of data, or the intermediate pieces of data used to compute a final data element, as in a database record or web site (data provenance).
(computing) The execution history of computer processes which were used to compute a final piece of data (process provenance).
(of a person) Background; history; place of origin.
The termprovenience in archaeology has largely replacedprovenance becauseprovenience is restricted toin situ location at the date of archaeological discovery rather than the "origin-to-present"chain of custody details of properprovenance as is customarily used by historians, museums, and commercial entities.
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