revision

English Online Dictionary. What means revision‎? What does revision mean?

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈvɪʒ.ən/, [ɹɪˈvɪʒ.n̩]
• (US) enPR: rəvĭzh'ən, rĭvĭzh'ən, IPA^(key): /ɹəˈvɪʒ.ən/, [ɹəˈvɪʒ.n̩], /ɹɪˈvɪʒ.ən/, [ɹɪˈvɪʒ.n̩]
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈvɪʒ.ən/, [ɹɪˈvɪʒ.n̩]
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ɹəˈvɪʒ.ən/, [ɹəˈvɪʒ.n̩]
• Rhymes: -ɪʒən

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French révision, from Latin revīsiō.

Noun

revision (countable and uncountable, plural revisions)

1. (uncountable) The process of revising:
   1. The action or process of reviewing, editing and amending.
      • 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, […] .
   2. (UK, Australia, New Zealand) The action or process of reviewing something previously learned, especially one′s notes in preparation for a test or examination.
2. (countable) A changed edition, or new version; a modification.
   • 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.
3. (countable) A story corrected or expanded by a writer commissioned by the original author.

Synonyms

• (UK, Australia, New Zealand: reviewing something previously learned): review (US)

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Translations

Etymology 2

From re- +‎ vision.

Verb

revision (third-person singular simple present revisions, present participle revisioning, simple past and past participle revisioned)

1. To provide with a new vision.

Anagrams

• ivorines, visioner

Finnish

Noun

revision

1. genitive singular of revisio

Anagrams

• inversio

Swedish

Noun

revision c

1. an audit
2. a revision (change)

Declension

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References

• revision in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• revision in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• revision in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• visioner