valid
Pronunciation: /ˈvælɪd/
The English word “valid” has 6 meanings listed here.
adjective
- Well-grounded or justifiable, pertinent.
- Acceptable, proper or correct; in accordance with the rules.
- Related to the current topic, or presented within context, relevant.
- Of a formula or system: such that it evaluates to true regardless of the input values.
- Of an argument: whose conclusion is always true whenever its premises are true.
- Genuine - as distinguished from efficient or regular - sacrament.
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French valide (“healthy, sound, in good order”), from Latin validus, from valeō (“to be strong, to be healthy, to be worth”) + -idus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁- (“be strong”).
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