revision
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from French révision, from Latin revīsiō.
Noun edit
revision (countable and uncountable, plural revisions)
- (uncountable) The process of revising:
- The action or process of reviewing, editing and amending.
- 2002, James D. Lester, James D. Lester, Jr, Writing Research Papers, page 195:
- Revision can turn a passable paper into an excellent one and change an excellent one into a radiant one.
- 2004, Mara Kalnins (editor), Note on the Text, Joseph Conrad, Victory: An Island Tale, page xxxix,
- The full history of its composition, revision, transmission, and publication is a complex and intricate one beyond the necessarily limited scope of this Note, […] .
- 2010, Dov M. Gabbay, Franz Guenthner, editors, Handbook of Philosophical Logic, volume 16, page 37:
- Many formalisms for belief revision use extraneous mechanisms for deciding what beliefs to keep and this makes it harder to iterate the process.
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand) The action or process of reviewing something previously learned, especially one′s notes in preparation for a test or examination.
- All that last minute revision really paid off in the exam! I got top marks!
- 2008, Philip A. Kalra, editor, Essential Revision Notes in Medicine for Students[1], volume 1:
- The action or process of reviewing, editing and amending.
- (countable) A changed edition, or new version; a modification.
- 2004, Robert McConnell Productions, Henry M. Robert, Robert′s Rules of Order: Simplified and Applied, page 331:
- The first thing members need to understand about a revision is that the current bylaws are not under consideration at all. If the revision is defeated, no changes to the current bylaws take place.
- 1992, Helen Baron, Carl Baron (editors), Introduction, The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H, Lawrence: Sons and Lovers, Part 1, 2002 paperback edition, Cambridge University Press, page lxxx,
- However, it is evident in a minority of cases that a revision by Lawrence is prompted solely by the need to remedy some local effect caused by Garnett′s deletion, and there, clearly, Lawrence′s MS text is, in principle, to be preferred.
- 2008, World Bank, page 209,
- Previous editions of World Development Indicators used revision 2, first published in 1948. Revision 3 was completed in 1989, and many countries now use it. But revision 2 is still widely used for compiling cross-country data.
- 2012, Bill Fane, David Byrnes, AutoCAD 2013 For Dummies, page 189:
- Include the revision number. You may need to add a triangle and number, shown in Figure 9-6, to indicate the revision number.
- (countable) A story corrected or expanded by a writer commissioned by the original author.
- A revision story
Synonyms edit
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand: reviewing something previously learned): review (US)
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Translations edit
act of revising
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changed edition
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Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
revision (third-person singular simple present revisions, present participle revisioning, simple past and past participle revisioned)
- To provide with a new vision.
- What philosophy needs is to be revisioned with a more hopeful, engaged inspirational point of view.
Anagrams edit
Finnish edit
Noun edit
revision
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Swedish edit
Noun edit
revision c
Declension edit
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Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | revision | revisionen | revisioner | revisionerna |
Genitive | revisions | revisionens | revisioners | revisionernas |
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References edit
- revision in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- revision in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- revision in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)