revision
UK/ɹɪˈvɪʒ.ən/US/ɹəˈvɪʒ.ən/
revision noun: the action or process of reviewing, editing and amending.
Noun
revision (countable and uncountable, plural revisions)
- The action or process of reviewing, editing and amending.
- Revision can turn a passable paper into an excellent one and change an excellent one into a radiant one.2002, James D. Lester; James D. Lester, Jr, Writing Research Papers, page 195
- The full history of its composition, revision, transmission, and publication is a complex and intricate one beyond the necessarily limited scope of this Note, […] .2004, Mara Kalnins (editor), Note on the Text, Joseph Conrad, Victory: An Island Tale, page xxxix
- 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!
- Synonyms:
- review
- A changed edition, or new version; a modification.
- 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.2004, Robert McConnell Productions, Henry M. Robert, Robert′s Rules of Order: Simplified and Applied, page 331
- 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.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
- A story corrected or expanded by a writer commissioned by the original author.
- A revision story
Verb
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.
- Earlier plays of the Broadway comedy genre focused on assimilation […] By re-imagining and re-visioning classic Broadway comedy as a parable of gay growth, Allen has illuminted ^([sic]) the original style and given us something new that is both fresh and funny.1991 April 19, Michael Bronski, “Overtly Gay”, in Gay Community News, page 16
revision meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
revision in Hindi
- act of revising
- पुनरीक्षण punrīkṣaṇ, पुनर्विचार punarvicār
- changed edition
- संशोधन sañśodhan
revision in Tamil
- சீராய்வு, மேலாய்வு, மறு விசாரணை, மாற்றமைவு, மாற்றம், மீட்டல்
revision in Urdu
- revision
- نظر ثانی nazar-e sānī
revision in Bengali
- সংস্করণ
More languagesFewer languages
- revision in Telugu
- పునర్విమర్శ, పునర్విమర్శను
- revision in Malayalam
- പതിപ്പ്
- revision in Kannada
- ತಿದ್ದುಪಾಟು, ಪರಿಷ್ಕರಣ, ಸಂಸ್ಕರಣ, ಪುನರವಲೋಕನ
- revision in Punjabi
- ਸੰਸ਼ੋਧਨ
- revision in Gujarati
- પુનરીક્ષણ
- revision in Odia
- ପୁନଃବିଚାର
- revision in Tagalog
- mulinyos
- revision in Arabic
- مُرَاجَعَة murājaʕa, تَنْقِيح tanqīḥ
- revision in Indonesian
- revisi, pendaan
- revision in Vietnamese
- tái bản
Examples of revision in a sentence
- Many formalisms for belief revision use extraneous mechanisms for deciding what beliefs to keep and this makes it harder to iterate the process.2010, Dov M. Gabbay, Franz Guenthner, editors, Handbook of Philosophical Logic, volume 16, page 37:
- You may need to add a triangle and number, shown in Figure 9-6, to indicate the revision number.2012, Bill Fane, David Byrnes, AutoCAD 2013 For Dummies, page 189:
Synonyms of revision
Forms of revision
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | revisions |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | revisions |
| present participle | revisioning |
| past participle | revisioned |
| past | revisioned |
Origin of revision
Borrowed from French révision, from Latin revīsiō.
From re- + vision.
Words formed from revision
Phrases with revision
Words that rhyme with revision
- division
- vision
- circumcision
- concision
- decision
- collision
- excision
- Frisian
- incision
- misprision
- precision
- television
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Questions about revision
- What does revision mean?
- Revision means the action or process of reviewing, editing and amending.
- What is revision in Hindi?
- Revision in Hindi is पुनरीक्षण (punrīkṣaṇ), पुनर्विचार (punarvicār), संशोधन (sañśodhan). See Revision meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use revision in a sentence?
- Many formalisms for belief revision use extraneous mechanisms for deciding what beliefs to keep and this makes it harder to iterate the process.
- What part of speech is revision?
- Revision can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce revision?
- Revision is pronounced /ɹɪˈvɪʒ.ən/ (UK).
- What is the plural of revision?
- The plural of revision is revisions.
Words near revision in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: revision (page history and authors); revision (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); نظر ثانی (Urdu) (page history and authors); revision (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); revision (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); revision (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); revision (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); revision (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); revision (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); revision (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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