Dictionary definition(s) for: evidence

• n., All the means by which any alleged matter of fact, the truth of which is submitted to investigation, is established or disproved.
  [ Government - Black's Law Dictionary ]
  Black's Law Dictionary. 8th ed. Edited by Bryan A.Garner and Henry Campbell Black. St. Paul, MN : Thomson/West, 2004.
• n., A record, an object, testimony, or other material that is used to prove or disprove a fact.
  [ General Dictionaries - A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology ]
  Pearce-Moses, Richard. A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology. Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2005. http://www.archivists.org/glossary/index.asp
• n., That which tends to prove the existence or nonexistence of some fact. It may consist of testimony, documentary evidence, real evidence, and, when admissible, hearsay evidence.
  [ Government - A Dictionary of Law ]
  A Dictionary of Law. Ed. Elizabeth A. Martin. Oxford University Press, 2002. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. University of British Columbia. 4 August 2006 http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/ENTRY.html?subview=Main&entry=t49.e1331
• n., The relationship shown between a fact to be proven and the record(s) that prove(s) it.
  [ Archives - Preservation of the Integrity of Electronic Records , Page: 9 ]
  Duranti, Luciana, Terry Eastwood, and Heather MacNeil. Preservation of the Integrity of Electronic Records. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.