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RECENSION

Definitions: RECENSION

RECENSION

Noun

1. The result of such a work; a text established by critical revision; an edited version.

2. Specifically, the review of a text (as of an ancient author) by an editor; critical revisal and establishment.

3. The act of reviewing or revising; review; examination; enumeration.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Recension \Re*cen"sion\, noun. [Latin expression recensio: compare to the French expression recension.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms within Context: RECENSION

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Numeration

Noun: numeration; numbering; Verb: pagination; tale, recension, enumeration, summation, reckoning, computation, supputation; calculation, calculus; algorithm, algorism, rhabdology, dactylonomy; measurement; statistics.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: RECENSION

Non-English Usage: "RECENSION" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Albanian (review), Swedish (critique, review).

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Commercial Usage: RECENSION

DomainTitle

Books

  • Le Testament D'Abraham: Introduction, Traduction Du Texte Grec Et Commentaire De LA Recension Grecque Longue (Studia in Veteris Testamenti pseudepigr (reference)

  • Midrash Tanhuma: Translated into English With Indices and Brief Notes: Genesis (S. Buber Recension Volume 1 Genesis) (reference)

  • Millbrook, A Narrative of the Early Years of American Psychedelianism Recension of 1997 (reference)

  • Millbrook: A True Story of the Psychedelic Revolution, Recension of 1992 (reference)

  • Recension of the Biblical Watchdog (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: RECENSION

"RECENSION" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "RECENSION" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: RECENSION

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

bok recension

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: RECENSION

Language Translations for "RECENSION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏تنقيح لأثر قديم, ‏أثر منقح. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

рецензия (notice, review), версия (version), преработване (recast, rehash), поправяне (mending, reclamation, rectification, redress, reformation, reinstatement, renovation, reparing, retrieval, trimming, undoing), поправен текст. (various references)

   

French

  

révision (judicial review, reconditioning, reconsideration, rehearing, release, reviewing, reviser, revision). (various references)

   

German

  

revidierter Text. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κριτική αναθεώρηση. (various references)

   

Manx

  

aavaght. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ecensionray

   

Portuguese

  

revisão de texto, recensão (critical review, review), texto revisto. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

revizuire (redaction, review, revisal, revision), text revãzut. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

recensión (critical review, review). (various references)

   

Thai

  

การปรับปรุงใหม่ (revamp). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

düzeltme (adjustment, amendment, correcting, correction, emendation, improvement, melioration, proofreading, readjustment, rectification, refinement, reformation, retouch, trimming), düzeltilmiş metin. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

рецензія (critique, notice, review), огляд (checkup, conspectus, examination, exploring, inspection, notice, overlook, review, revue, survey, visit), переглянуте видання. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự duyệt lại, bản đã xem lại. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: RECENSION

Derivations

Words beginning with "RECENSION": recensions. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "RECENSION"

Words rhyming with "RECENSION" (pronounced 'Re*cen"sion'): Abrasion, Abscession, Abscision, Abscission, Abstersion, Abstrusion, Abusion, Accension, Accession, Acutorsion, Addression, Adhesion, Admission, Adversion, Affusion, Aggression, Allision, Allusion, Amission, Animadversion, Anteversion, Appension, Apprehension, Appulsion, Arrosion, Ascension, Aspersion, Assession, Aversion, Avision, Avulsion, Catabasion, Cession, Circumclusion, Circumfusion, Circumincession, Coextension, Cohesion, Cointension, Collapsion, Collision, Collusion, Comprehension, Compression, Compulsion, Concession, Concision, Conclusion, Concussion, Condescension, Confession, Confusion, Congression, Consension, Conspersion, Contorsion, Contraversion, Controversion, Contusion, Conversion, Convulsion, Corrasion, Corrosion, Decession, Decision, Declension, Decursion, Delapsion, Delusion, Demersion, Demission, Demulsion, Deprehension, Depression, Depulsion, Derision, Descension, Detersion, Detorsion, Detrusion, Diffission, Diffusion, Digression, Dimension, Dimission, Discession, Disclusion, Discommission, Discursion, Discussion, Dismission, Dispansion, Dispassion, Dispersion, Displosion, Dispossession, Dissension, Dissuasion, Distension, Diversion, Effossion, Effusion, Egression, Elapsion, Elusion, Emersion, Emission, Empassion, Emulsion, Erasion, Evasion, Eversion, Evulsion, Excision, Exclusion, Excursion, Excussion, Exesion, Expansion, Explosion, expression, extension, Extersion, Extramission, Extraversion, Extroversion, Extrusion, Fidejussion, fission, fusion, Illision, illusion, immersion, Immission, Impassion, implosion, imprecision, impression, Improvision, impulsion, Inadhesion, Inapprehension, Incension, Incession, incision, inclusion, Incompassion, incomprehension, Inconfusion, incursion, INDECISION, Indivision, Inextension, infusion, Ingression, Inhesion, Inrecision, Insession, Inspersion, Insubmission, intension, intercession, Interclusion, Interfusion, intermission, interspersion, Intorsion, Intrafusion, Introcession, Introgression, intromission, Intropression, introversion, intrusion, invasion, inversion, Invision, Irremission, Irrision, lesion, manumission, Mersion, misapprehension, Misconclusion, Misdivision, Misexpression, Mispassion, Mispersuasion, Misprision, Nonadmission, Noncohesion, Nonsubmission, Obsession, Obtension, Obtrusion, Obtusion, Obversion, Occision, Occlusion, Occursion, Offension, Omission, Oppression, Ostension, Outpassion, Percussion, Perfusion, Permansion, permission, Perpension, Perpession, Persuasion, Pertusion, Pervasion, Perversion, Portension, Preadmission, Preapprehension, Precession, Precision, Preclusion, Prehension, Prepossession, Presension, Pression, Pretension, Pretermission, Prevision, Profession, Profusion, Prolapsion, Prolusion, Propension, Propulsion, Protension, Protrusion, Pulsion, readmission, Reascension, Recision, Reclusion, Recommission, Reconversion, recursion, Recussion, Refossion, Refusion, regression, Reimpression, repercussion, repossession, reprehension, repression, repulsion, rescission, Respersion, Responsion, Retrocession, retrogression, retroversion, Retrusion, reversion, revision, revulsion, scansion, scission, secession, seclusion, Self-delusion, self-possession, session, Sponsion, suasion, subdivision, Subingression, submersion, submission, subversion, succession, Succision, succussion, Suffossion, suffusion, supersession, supervision, suppression, Supravision, suspension, Thermotension, torsion, Transcension, Transcursion, transfusion, transgression, transmission, Transversion, Trusion, Uncircumcision, Unconversion, Unintermission, Unpersuasion, Version. (additional references)

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Anagrams: RECENSION

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-n-n-o-r-s"

-1 letter: onscreen.

-2 letters: coiners, conines, conners, cronies, encores, incense, necrose, orceins, recoins, senecio, sincere.

-3 letters: censer, censor, cerise, coiner, conies, conine, conins, conner, cosier, cosine, crones, encore, eosine, icones, inners, irones, nereis, nieces, nonces, nosier, orcein, orcins, oscine, recoin, recons, renins, screen, secern, seiner, senior, serein, serine, sinner, soiree.

-4 letters: cense, ceres, ceros, cines, cions, cires, coins, coirs, cones, conin, conns, cores, corns, corse, cosie, cries, crone, eosin, ernes, erose, icons, inner, irone, irons, nenes, neons, nicer, niece, nines, noirs, noise, nonce, nones, noris, onces, orcin, ornis, osier, recon, reins, renin, resin, rices, rinse, risen, rosin, scene, scion, scone, score, scorn, scree, seine, senor, serin, since, siree, siren, sneer, snore, sonic.

-5 letters: cees, cere, cero, cine, cion, cire, coin, coir, cone, coni, conn, cons, core, corn, cors, cris, eons, erne, erns, eros, ices, icon, inns, inro, ions, ires, iron, nene, neon, nice, nine, noes, noir, none, nori, nose, once, ones, orcs, ores, recs, rees, rein, reis, rice, rins, rise, rocs, roes, rose, seen, seer, sene, sere, sice, sine, sire, sone, sore, sori, sorn.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-n-n-o-r-s"
 

+1 letter: endocrines, recensions.

 

+2 letters: corninesses, encrimsoned, ensorceling, nonreceipts, prominences, reconvinces.

 

+3 letters: concessioner, congruencies, containerise, contriteness, copresenting, countermines, crenelations, crescendoing, ensorcelling, incoherences, inobservance, intercession, intersection, intolerances, necromancies, neuroscience, nonelectrics, nonresidence, nonresidency, omnipresence, precensoring, proveniences, recompensing, recondensing, reconnoiters, reconnoitres, reconversion, reinfections, reinjections, reinspection, unconsidered.

 

+4 letters: antielectrons, antirecession, cogenerations, comprehension, concessioners, concurrencies, confectioners, conferencings, confirmedness, conservancies, containerised, containerises, containerizes, containerless, conventiclers, convergencies, conversancies, conversazione, countersigned, countersniper, crenellations, ethnocentrism, inclinometers, incongruences, inconsiderate, incorrectness, inflorescence, inobservances, interceptions, intercessions, interconnects, interconverts, interjections, intersections, neurosciences, nondecreasing, nonresidences, nonresistance, nonrestricted, omnipresences, oneiromancies, predominances, recognizances, reconceptions, reconditeness, reconnections, reconsidering, reconversions, reinspections, secondariness, selenocentric, unceremonious.

 

+5 letters: antirecessions, carcinogeneses, carcinogenesis, censoriousness, comprehensions, concessionaire, confederations, contrarinesses, contritenesses, conventioneers, conversaziones, convertiplanes, coordinateness, countersnipers, counterstained, deconsecrating, deconsecration, disconcertment, ethnocentrisms, fictioneerings, incommensurate, inconsiderable, indecorousness, inflorescences, intercessional, intersectional, ironicalnesses, neuroscientist, neurosecretion, noncelebrities, nondescriptive, nondestructive, nonelectronics, nonemergencies, nonintercourse, nonresidencies, nonresistances, nonrestrictive, nonsecretories, nucleoproteins, overdominances, perniciousness, preconceptions, preconventions, predominancies, reconcilements, reconnaissance, reconsecrating, reconsecration, recontaminates, reinforcements, seroconversion, serotoninergic, superconfident, supercontinent, superinfection, synchroneities.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: RECENSION


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 45 43 45 4E 53 49 4F 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01000101 01000011 01000101 01001110 01010011 01001001 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#69 &#67 &#69 &#78 &#83 &#73 &#79 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0045 0043 0045 004E 0053 0049 004F 004E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

523937394853434948

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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