Meaning & use
Ascertainment
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The process of finding out or establishing something with certainty.
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Ascertainment of the exact cause of the outbreak required weeks of laboratory testing.
The court ordered a careful ascertainment of the property's boundaries before ruling.
A note on using this word
Frequently used in legal and scientific writing where precise confirmation of facts matters more than casual discovery.
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determinationverification
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