The place and time of origin of some artifact or other object. See Usage note below.
The history of ownership of a work of art
The copy history of a piece of data, or the intermediate pieces of data utilized to compute a final data element, as in a database record or web site (data provenance)
The execution history of computer processes which were utilized to compute a final piece of data (process provenance)
(of a person) Background; history; place of origin
Verb
To establish the provenance of something
Origin
Borrowed from French provenance ("origin"), from Middle French provenant, present participle of provenir, from Latin provenio.
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