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noun

the act or work of revising.

a process of revising.

a revised form or version, as of a book.

Origin:
1605–15; < Late Latin revīsiōn- (stem of revīsiō), equivalent to Latin revīs(us) (see revise) + -iōn- -ion

Related forms

re·vi·sion·al, re·vi·sion·ar·y, adjective

non·re·vi·sion, noun

pre·re·vi·sion, noun

pro·re·vi·sion, adjective

Synonyms
1. alteration, correction, emendation.

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Scar revision is surgery to improve or reduce the appearance of scars.

Aim for your students to engage in the kind of editing and revision that you do when you write papers with colleagues.

But those numbers are subject to heavy revision as better data becomes available.

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Scar revision is surgery to improve or reduce the appearance of scars.

Aim for your students to engage in the kind of editing and revision that you do when you write papers with colleagues.

But those numbers are subject to heavy revision as better data becomes available.

Fresh data from ground-based telescopes indicate that a prevailing view of the solar neighborhood needs revision.

All scientific scenarios are subject to further revision.

He could rotate objects in his mind and make technical drawings without the need for a single revision.

It fit the available facts and it was open to revision if new facts contradicting it came to light.

Another is a pattern of severe financial imbalances, which no amount of statistical revision can erase.

Science is a project in a constant state of revision.

But each revision has the potential to show us something new.

Today's announcement is an upward revision of that number.

Get a couple of chapters out there as articles, and you'll be able to test your ideas for the revision.

Even a small revision in forecasts corresponds to a huge volume of corn.

It seems the old adage about sticks, stones and hurtful words may need some revision.

Google is testing out a new revision of its dominant internet search technology.

The main thing to avoid here is procrastinating in the name of revision.

Nice article, but the numbers at the end need revision.

Fossil suggests evolutionary order requires revision.

What this means, they say, is that estimates of asteroid danger might need revision too.

Toss in a revision or two and it is conceivable that this might mark the start of a recession.

Perhaps modern biology is in need of a fundamental revision.

Then again, such a track could mean that our previous hypotheses were wrong and require revision according to new evidence.

Here, a revision has to be published as errata or else.

Publishing a revision for a large group based on a study of only a few hundred species is a recipe for scientific dispute.

Of these, two lions became fertile again when their tubes rejoined-prompting a recent revision of the surgical technique.

Frances, the man who has been directing the fourth major revision of his.

The good news is that some of the downward revision to growth is due to a downward revision to private inventories.

But a recent discovery from the deep blue sea may force a revision of that account.

If anything is wrong, it can only be changed by another charter revision proposal in another.

In fact, the apparent cut is due to a revision of the agency's accounting methods.

But it actually helped lead to a radical revision of human nature.

Partly it's because textbook revision deadlines loom.

Opposition to that plan resulted in a revision considered acceptable to the community.

To me, it makes the process of revision less daunting by turning readers' reports into do-able lists of revisions.

Although the cause would remain unknown, a likely explanation is that something in the laws of gravity needs radical revision.

Whether the new thinking will be reflected in this year's revision of the federal dietary guidelines remains unclear.

We're on our seventh major revision of that program.

The report of the committee on the revision of the statutes was read and accepted.

So, the larger understanding is helping me figure out the concrete logistics of revision.

The revision would impose fines on auditing firms when employees are found to have overlooked clients' falsified accounts.

If the expectations of the new hire are always under revision and no single job description stands as the evaluative.

But if we're talking about approval of a new workload formula or revision of our mission, that can be an entirely different story.

During a wholesale revision of the tax code they might yet have their day.

To stop that would take a quantum revision of general relativity.

As others wrote, at this point, the editors care more about accessibility and easy revision than a particular style.

Legal changes, such as a revision to the bankruptcy code that allowed judges to reduce mortgage debt, could help.

When the preponderance of evidence favors a revision of the theory, a consensus can be reached to change.

Revision requires making choices, something that academic writing allows you to avoid at all costs.

The national dialogue calls for further revision of the curriculum to promote the values of tolerance and moderation.

Emphasizing writing as a painstaking process that involves revision and re-evaluation in conversation with other people.

So, don't expect any downloadable revision of the bar-strength formula to magically solve the issue of dropped calls.

Maybe your work really does need some serious revision.

The revision will enable the licence to handle issues such as patents and online services.

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World English Dictionary

revision (rɪˈvɪʒən)

—n
1.	the act or process of revising
2.	(Brit) the process of rereading a subject or notes on it, esp in preparation for an examination
3.	a corrected or new version of a book, article, etc

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revision definition

programming
A release of a piece of software which is not a major release or a bugfix, but only introduces small changes or new features.
(1996-08-04)

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