REVISION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does revision mean? 

• REVISION (noun)
  The noun REVISION has 3 senses:

1. the act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration and modification)

2. the act of rewriting something

3. something that has been written again

  Familiarity information: REVISION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REVISION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration and modification)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

alteration; revision

Context example:

it would require a drastic revision of his opinion

Hypernyms ("revision" is a kind of...):

transformation; translation (the act of changing in form or shape or appearance)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "revision"):

distraction; misdirection (the act of distracting; drawing someone's attention away from something)

modulation (the act of modifying or adjusting according to due measure and proportion (as with regard to artistic effect))

qualification (the act of modifying or changing the strength of some idea)

reorganization (an extensive alteration of the structure of a corporation or government)

metamorphosis; transfiguration (a striking change in appearance or character or circumstances)

Derivation:

revise (make revisions in)

revise (revise or reorganize, especially for the purpose of updating and improving)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of rewriting something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

rescript; revisal; revise; revision

Hypernyms ("revision" is a kind of...):

revising; rewriting (editing that involves writing something again)

Derivation:

revise (make revisions in)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Something that has been written again

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

rescript; revision; rewrite

Context example:

the rewrite was much better

Hypernyms ("revision" is a kind of...):

piece of writing; writing; written material (the work of a writer; anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect))

 Context examples 

A character string that is a revision of the original text to enable the coding of the text.

(Name Code Modified Text, NCI Thesaurus)

A classification system established by adopting the original system proposed by Shimada with subsequent revisions.

(International Neuroblastoma Pathology Classification, NCI Thesaurus)

A character string that is a revision of the original text observation result to enable the coding of the text.

(Performed Observation Result Result Code Modified Text, NCI Thesaurus)

"May not the editor have been right in his revision of your 'Sea Lyrics'?" she questioned.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A cardiac lead requires revision, at which time the generator to the device will be replaced.

(Cardiac Device Generator is Being Replaced at Time of Lead Revision, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)

Rignot said these findings will require an upward revision to current predictions of sea level rise.

(West Antarctic Glacier loss appears unstoppable, NASA)

The researchers sought to determine how revisions in guidelines for blood pressure in non-pregnant adults might apply to pregnant women.

(Elevated blood pressure in first trimester increases risk for blood pressure disorder later in pregnancy, National Institutes of Health)

EXAMPLE(S): decomposition (component), pre-condition, post-condition, sequel (replaces, modifies), attribution (cause and effect) In a Regulated Product Submission (RPS), support of versioning can be accomplished by having two different revisions of a document related to each other through a replaces relationship.

(Document Version Relationship, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

Every LSID consists of up to five parts: the Network Identifier (NID); the root DNS name of the issuing authority; the namespace chosen by the issuing authority; the object id unique in that namespace; and an optional revision id for storing versioning information.

(Life Sciences Identifier, NCI Thesaurus)