emendations

Noun

emendation (countable and uncountable, plural emendations)

1. (uncountable) The act of altering for the better, or correcting what is erroneous or faulty; correction; improvement.
   • ‘Aye, aye,’ quoth she, and it will be observed that no emendation whatever is necessary to be made in these two initiative remarks, ‘Aye, aye! […]1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, chapter I, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC
2. (countable) Alteration by editorial criticism, as of a text so as to give a better reading; removal of errors or corruptions from a document.
   • The book might be improved by judicious emendations.
3. An intentional change in the spelling of a scientific name, which is usually not allowed.
   • The genus name Uramyia is an unjustified emendation of Uramya even though it uses a better transliteration of the Greek word μυῖα.