RE: A little respect for "unvalidated"

["Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Lauriston
> Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 4:30 PM
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: Re: A little respect for "unvalidated"
> 
> "I wonder how many people would ever be confused by 'un' in 
> front of a word that they knew."
> 
> Most of my dictionaries don't define "unvalidated." The OED 
> defines it as "not validated or proven to be accurate or true."
> 
> If in the medical device field "unvalidated" means the device 
> failed a validation test, then that usage would confuse me.

No, in the medical device field, that's not what it means.

But that's OK -- "validation" means different things in different
contexts. So does "field," for that matter. That doesn't mean that one
industry's use of the word "field" is correct and another's is
incorrect.








































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