falsificazione

falsification, forgery

noun fahl-see-fee-kah-TSYOH-neh Rare

Usage Note

Falsificazione covers both the act and the result of forging a document or falsifying data — falsificazione di documenti (document forgery), falsificazione dei dati (data falsification). The related verb is falsificare. In philosophy it also translates 'falsification' in the Popperian sense (principio di falsificazione, falsifiability principle).

Examples

"È stato condannato per falsificazione di documenti."

Natural Translation

He was convicted of document forgery.

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