Hello
Verification would verify that the input requirements are met.....this not not mean that necessarily the intended function is met, because the input requirements in the design phase could be wrong translated from the costumer requirements.
Well if your design input requirements do not include the intended function, you've got a big problem pal, regardless how we play with words...
If a glucose meter does not measure glucose level in the blood , I would not bother doing any other activities whether you call them verification or validation, just scrap the project and start all over.
Gentlemen, in the real word, not all is definitions and auditor's opinions.
ISO is too generic to debate the meaning of this or that word.
What counts is how we interpret ISO to adapt it to real life. I hope all agree at least that validation is to be done on a production sample , meaning a product that was manufactured to the same documentation, processes and machinery used /to be used for the actual production run.
If we agree as much, than simply any paper review, inspection, measuement or test that is performed on anything other than a production product is verification.
No one in his right mind would release a design to production prior to thoroughly verifying the design. (Even if the ISO auditor says that according with section so and so , that's validation) Who ever says that design inputs can be verified on paper or electronically only , hasn't faced a technologically complex product.
For any product that is somewhat complex (more than a fiew simple parts ) design verification is actually done in several phases and steps. No one would spend tons of money to even prepare for production (tooling alone could cost a bundle) without verifying every aspect of the design.
As for design inputs/intended function here is a joke that is actually based on fact:
I worked once upon a time on a fighter aircraft project.
The spec was somewhat like 700-800 pages and it referred to a few dozens other documents, totalling thousands of pages.
One day at a meeting , someone threw a remark: "Have you noticed that nowhere in all these thousands of pages does it say that this thing has to fly !"
And he was right.