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UK
/kənfˈɜːmətəɹˌi/
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[ US /kənˈfɝməˌtɔɹi/ ]
[ US /kənˈfɝməˌtɔɹi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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serving to support or corroborate
collateral evidence
How To Use confirmatory In A Sentence
- [Illustration: A GENTLEMAN TAKING A FIRST FLOOR] cannot do better than find an excuse for a recurrence to his purse; and then the partial exhibition of the coin alluded to above will be found to be productive of a feeling most decidedly confirmatory in the mind of the landlady that you are a true gentleman. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 13, 1841
- To begin with, there is more than one type of test, a very sensitive (read: many false positives) “screening test” and a somewhat less sensitive (but still prone to false positives due to the nature of the manufacture of the HIV tests in general, see below for more detail) “confirmatory test”. ProWomanProLife » Getting started
- In the confirmatory test, the drugs in the urine sample are isolated on a small chromatographic column, eluted with an organic solvent, and injected into the gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer.
- We chose not to publish at the time as independent confirmatory evidence was too flimsy.
- He argued that this was confirmatory of the fact that their allegations against him were baseless and were designed to divert attention from their own misconduct.
- We had a confirmatory call from the estate agent this morning, following on her investigation of the status of the putative deal.
- The deal is also subject to "confirmatory" due diligence by NYT > Home Page
- A high urine sodium concentration is a variable but frequent confirmatory finding in this disorder.
- A confirmatory, post approval clinical trial was begun by Wyeth ( now Pfizer ) in 2004.
- confirmatory" testing - these are tests that the team make to confirm that they've developed a feature correctly, to confirm that they haven't broken an existing feature, or to confirm that a previously-discovered bug has not been reintroduced. Cosmic Seriosity Balance