noun
definition
Place or source of origin.
example
Many supermarkets display the provenance of their food products.
definition
The place and time of origin of some artifact or other object. See Usage note below.
example
This spear is of Viking provenance.
definition
The history of ownership of a work of art
example
The picture is of royal provenance.
definition
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)
definition
The execution history of computer processes which were utilized to compute a final piece of data (process provenance)
definition
(of a person) Background; history; place of origin
synonyms