confirming

Thân thiện

A positive pregnancy test is a confirming sign of early pregnancy.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Serving to support or corroborate: Providing additional evidence or proof that strengthens or verifies a statement, belief, or finding.
   • Indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen: In medical or scientific contexts, yielding a result that shows the presence of a particular substance, condition, or agent.

Usage

• The adjective "confirming" is used to describe evidence, tests, or results that provide verification.
• It often modifies nouns like "evidence," "test," "result," or "data."

Examples

• Adjective:
  • The confirming evidence from the second witness convinced the jury.
  • A confirming lab test is required before the diagnosis is final.
  • The experiment yielded confirming results for the initial hypothesis.

Advanced Usage

• "Confirming test": A secondary test performed to validate the results of an initial, often screening, test.
  • After a positive screening, a confirming test is standard procedure.
• Used in formal, academic, legal, and scientific writing to denote the supportive nature of information.

Variants and Related Words

• Confirm (verb): To establish the truth or correctness of something.
  • Please confirm your attendance.
• Confirmation (noun): The action of confirming something or the state of being confirmed.
  • We are awaiting confirmation of the flight details.
• Confirmatory (adjective): Serving to confirm; corroborative. (Often interchangeable with "confirming" in technical contexts).
  • Confirmatory analysis was conducted.

Synonyms

• Corroborating: Supporting with evidence.
• Verifying: Proving the truth of.
• Validating: Confirming the validity or accuracy.
• Positive (in test contexts): Indicating the presence of something.

Antonyms

• Disconfirming: Proving to be false.
• Contradictory: In conflict with.
• Negative (in test contexts): Indicating the absence of something.

Related Phrases

• Confirming evidence: Evidence that supports an existing claim or finding.
  • The new document served as confirming evidence for the theory.
• Confirming instance: An example or case that validates a rule or hypothesis.
  • The discovery was a confirming instance of the predicted phenomenon.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. serving to support or corroborate
   • collateral evidence
2. indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen
   • a positive pregnancy test

Từ đồng nghĩa

• positive