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> If you've not worked in an industry where validation is a
> process mandated by
> law that has enough booby traps that it usually requires
> training to navigate
> rather than a word you can look up in the dictionary or OED,
> that wouldn't be a
> surprise.
>
> Other industries: as previously mentioned, so far I can check off
> aircraft/aerospace and medical/biotech/pharma as areas where
> the definitions I
> posted will be readily recognized. It's hit and miss in telecom.
>
> Gene Kim-Eng
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>
> Well that meaning of invalidated carries an exclusion that I
> don't normally
> apprehend. I've never read (or used) the word to mean that
> you (your product,
> service, etc.) had to have previously been in "validated" state.
>
> To me, all it's ever meant is that you have undergone the testing or
> verification procedure this time (whether it's the first-ever
> or the hundredth)
> and failed. To me, the key to "invalidated" is only that the
> attempt has
> occurred in the instance where the term is applied. I've never needed
> "invalidated" to further assert "has undergone the testing in
> the past and has
> passed/succeeded".
>
> Now I'd wonder if that nuance/baggage carries over to other
> industries.
>
> What's the OED got to say? :-)
>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
So, "invalidated", in those industries, refers only to items (systems, processes, whatever) that have previously been successfully validated, and are in currently validated state when the test is applied... and this time they've failed. So, the named industries have another word that conveys "found to be invalid or not validatable, but this was the first-ever attempt, so it was not previously in validated state", yes? What would that word be?
- Kevin
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