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revision

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context uncountable English) The process of revise: 2 # The action or process of reviewing, editing and amending. 3 # (context UK Australia New Zealand English) The action or process of reviewing something previously learned, especially ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Revision is the stage in the writing process where the author reviews, alters, and amends her or his message, according to what has been written in the draft . Revision follows drafting and precedes editing . Drafting and revising often form a loop as a ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration and modification); "it would require a drastic revision of his opinion" [syn: alteration ] the act of rewriting something [syn: revisal , revise , rescript ] something that has been written again; ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Revision \Re*vi"sion\, n. [F. r['e]vision, L. revisio.] The act of revising; re["e]xamination for correction; review; as, the revision of a book or writing, or of a proof sheet; a revision of statutes. That which is made by revising. Syn: Re["e]xamination; ...

Usage examples of revision.

The religious traditions are often so rich and multivariate that they offer ample opportunity for renewal and revision, again especially when their sacred books can be interpreted metaphorically and allegorically.

The principle of party spirit prevailed over a sense of justice, for the scrutiny of an election is nothing more than a revision of the poll itself, and if such revision cannot be completed before the period at which the writ is returnable, he is bound by his office and oath to make the return agreeably to the poll as actually taken.

The more Harry pored over the book, the more he realized how much was in there, not only the handy hints and shortcuts on potions that was earning him such a glowing reputation with Slughorn, but also the imaginative little jinxes and hexes scribbled in the margins, which Harry was sure, judging by the crossings-out and revisions, that the Prince had invented himself.

The theoretical side of economics has not been neglected in this general revision and that chapter has been simplified and made more easily comprehensible to those first entering the study of this subject.

He tried his hand on the revision of an old play, and the manager was not slow to recognise an unmatched gift for dramatic writing.

What Einstein proposed was that the velocity-dependencies deduced by Lorentz were not part of some fudge-factor needed for electromagnetism, but that they expressed fundamental properties of the nature of space and time that were true universally, and hence called for a revision of mechanics.

On revision, however, those multipoint speeches will have to be broken down into much smaller components.

They mined the dense jumble of his Paduan notes and prepared neat sheets of paper, written extravagantly on one side only, for his review and revision.

Degrees, Allegories from old religions, mysteries used in revision of, 328-m.

It would likewise be impossible to order the segments of the multitude through processes that force it to be more mobile and flexible in hybrid cultural forms and in multicolored ghettos ifthis administration were not equally flexible and capable of specific and continuous procedural revisions and differentiations.

Feynman expressed this view more than three decades ago, it applies equally well today What he meant is that although the special and general theories of relativity require a drastic revision of previous ways of seeing the world, when one fully accepts the basic principles underlying them, the new and unfamiliar implications for space and time follow directly from careful logical reasoning.

In fact, we shall see that the conflict between general relativity and quantum mechanics is actually not the first, but the third in a sequence of pivotal conflicts encountered during the past century, each of whose resolution has resulted in a stunning revision of our understanding of the universe.

But instead of picking up another revision to the ISEG training schedule that Coombs had placed there for approval, he leaned back and reflected on his nagging sense that something was wrong.

Level 2, where I signed out the holovid chips for the Naval Regulations and Code of Conduct, Revision of 2087.

Of all the languages Tolkien mentioned in Etym, Quenya is in any case among the tongues that were not very significantly affected by his subsequent revisions.