Revision

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Revision \Re*vi"sion\, n. [F. r['e]vision, L. revisio.]
     1. The act of revising; reexamination for correction; review;
        as, the revision of a book or writing, or of a proof
        sheet; a revision of statutes.
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     2. That which is made by revising.
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     Syn: Reexamination; revisal; revise; review.
          [1913 Webster] Revisional

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  revision
       n 1: the act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration
            and modification); "it would require a drastic revision
            of his opinion" [syn: {alteration}]
       2: the act of rewriting something [syn: {revisal}, {revise}, {rescript}]
       3: something that has been written again; "the rewrite was much
          better" [syn: {rewrite}, {rescript}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  68 Moby Thesaurus words for "revision":
     amendment, copy, correction, duplication, editing, edition,
     emendation, imitation, improvement, modification, overhaul,
     overhauling, palingenesis, re-creation, re-examination,
     re-formation, reappraisal, reassessment, rebirth, rebuilding,
     recension, recheck, reconsideration, reconstitution,
     reconstruction, rectification, redaction, redesign, redoing,
     redraft, reedition, reestablishment, refashioning, regeneration,
     regenesis, reinquiry, reinstitution, reissue, remaking, renascence,
     rendition, renovation, reorganization, repetition, reprinting,
     reproduction, rescript, rescription, reshaping, restoration,
     restructuring, resurrection, rethinking, retrospect, retrospection,
     revaluation, revampment, review, revisal, revise, revised edition,
     revising, revival, rewrite, rewriting, update, updating, version
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  revision
       
           A {release} of a piece of software which is not
          a {major release} or a {bugfix}, but only introduces small
          changes or new features.
       
          (1996-08-04)