Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The act or process of revising.
  • noun A revised or new version, as of a book or other written material.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of revising; reëxamination and correction: as, the revision of statistics; the revision of a book, of a creed, etc.
  • noun That which is revised; a revised edition or version; specifically [capitalized], the revised English version of the Bible.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of revising; reëxamination for correction; review
  • noun That which is made by revising.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun uncountable The process of revising:
  • noun countable A changed edition, or new version; a modification.
  • noun countable A story corrected or expanded by a writer commissioned by the original author.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the act of rewriting something
  • noun something that has been written again
  • noun the act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration and modification)

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From revise +‎ -ion.

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Examples

  • The label revision applied to both Alli, sold over the counter, and Xenical, the prescription form.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • Biotech analyst Joel Sendek said the label revision for recently approved Cubicin, a treatment for a certain type of staph infection, is "not as good as it appears to be," in a report sent to clients on Wednesday.

    Cubist Takeout Seen Unlikely 2006

  • How much of your time is spent writing the first draft, and how much time is spent in revision?

    Interview: Alexander Jablokav odysseyworkshop 2010

  • The revision is utterly meaningless and one can only hope it is as transparently meaningless to the decent citizens of the republic as it is to the racists at whom the governor is winking.

    Apology not accepted, lawmaker says of McDonnell 2010

  • How much of your time is spent writing the first draft, and how much time is spent in revision?

    Interview: Melissa Scott odysseyworkshop 2009

  • The German chancellor, who had been hoping for a wholesale treaty revision, is expected to secure, at best, a change under a process known as the simplified revision procedure.

    Angela Merkel struggles to win support for EU bailout rules at Brussels summit Nicholas Watt 2010

  • I myself am finding the uselessness of word counts in revision to be positively restful.

    Progress Report deliasherman 2010

  • And at first, I thought you were really asking how long it takes to write a good novel – and I was going to say a long time, especially because revision is going to take a while.

    Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Be Extraordinary 2010

  • One more revision is incoming, and I did a readthrough of every single word of House Name because at this point, I need it.

    msagara: Progress report msagara 2009

  • "The revision is not expected to jeopardize the budget deficit targets for 2010 by any significant amount, nor the goals set for 2011," the person added.

    Greek 2009 Budget Deficit Likely to Be Revised Up Nick Skrekas 2010

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