Definitions
1.nounPlace or source of origin."Many supermarkets display the provenance of their food products."
2.nounThe place and time of origin of some artifact or other object. See Usage note below."This spear is of Viking provenance."
3.nounThe history of ownership of a work of art"The picture is of royal provenance."
4.nounThe copy history of a piece of data, or the intermediate pieces of data utilized to compute a final data element, as in a database record or web site (data provenance)
5.nounThe execution history of computer processes which were utilized to compute a final piece of data (process provenance)
6.noun(of a person) Background; history; place of origin
7.verbTo establish the provenance of something