Revision

Definitions: Revision

Revision

Noun

1. The act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration and modification); "it would require a drastic revision of his opinion".

2. The act of rewriting something.

3. Something that has been written again; "the rewrite was much better".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "revision" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references)

Computing

Fine Arts

Meteorology & Standards

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Synonyms: Revision

Attention

Noun: attention; mindfulness, presence of mind; Adjective: intentness, intentiveness; alertness; thought; advertence, advertency; observance, observation; consideration, reflection, perpension; heed; heedfulness; particularity; notice, regard; Verb: circumspection, diligence; (care); study, scrutiny inspection, introspection; revision, revisal.

Copy

Derivative, derivation, modification, expansion, extension, revision; second edition; (repetition).

Improvement

Reform, reformation; revision, radical reform; second thoughts, correction, limoe labor, refinement, elaboration; purification; oxidation; repair; (restoration); recovery.

Preparation

Precautionary, provident; preparative, preparatory; provisional, inchoate, under revision; preliminary; (precedent).

Crosswords: Revision

German (appeal, audit, final proof-read, reconsideration, revisal, revision), Spanish (audit, reviser, revision), Swedish (audit, auditing, readjustment, revision).

Books

• Sound Absorbent Materials: a Revision of a 662 (Vance Architectural Series A-2029) (reference)

• Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV-TR (Text Revision) (reference)

• DSM-IV-TR Casebook: A Learning Companion to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision (reference)

• A revision of actium casey and actiastes casey (Coleoptera: Pselaphidae) (reference)

• ICD-9-CM 2002: International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, Volumes 1 and 2 (Color (reference)

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Periodicals

• Oil Law Records Revision Service (reference)

• Revision Og Regnskabsvsen (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Hip Revision (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Ralph Lawson Presents: 2020 Revision [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• FIRMWARE UPG CURRENT REVISION (reference)

• Nortel Networks Baystack 10BT Boot Firmware Kit Revision D (reference)

• Macmillan Dictionary for Children Revision (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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

Malaclemmys centrata concentrica. In: "A Revision of Malaclemmys, a Genus of Turtles", by William Perry Hay. P. 3, Plate I.Credit: Fisheries.

1. Malaclemmys centrata. 2. Malaclemmys centrata concentrica. In: "A Revision of Malaclemmys, a Genus of Turtles", by William Perry Hay. P. 20, Plate X.Credit: Fisheries.

The closing days of the Senate present their customary arguments in favor of a revision of the Senate rules.Credit: Library of Congress.

National Cathedral. Page of prayer book before revision.Credit: Library of Congress.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Clause 2: No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it's inspection Laws: and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Controul of the Congress. (reference)

These conditions shall be susceptible of revision every ten years in the same manner. (reference)

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Right of revision.

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Health

When complications do occur, usually the shunt system will require some type of revision. (references)

Therefore, appropriate revision of these criteria to aid in the diagnosis of these individuals is encouraged. (references)

In this article, the authors propose a revision of the diagnostic criteria for Marfan syndrome and related conditions. (references)

Business

The evaporating emissions standards, which was established in 1995, is currently under revision. (references)

The revision became effective on July 1, 1999. The 33 percent limit for KT remained unchanged, however. (references)

The recent revision allowed Poland to adjust its foreign trade regulations to World Trade Organization and EU standards. (references)

Children

Liechtenstein

In February a revision of the Penal Code entered into force that makes the possession of child pornographic material a statutory offense and extends the statute of limitation for sexual offenses against children. (references)

Civil Liberties

Morocco

It also called for the revision of the Press Code. (references)

Ethiopia

An interfaith effort was underway during the year to promote revision of the law in order for religious organizations to obtain duty-free status. (references)

Economic History

Mongolia

Legal code based on Continental and Russian law is under revision. (references)

Belgium

The 1995-2005 National Equipment Plan is due for revision this year. (references)

Russia

The Russian Tax Code is in the process of major revision and reform. (references)

Human Rights

Cape Verde

The post of an independent Ombudsman, to be elected by the National Assembly, was created by the 1999 revision of the Constitution. (references)

Nicaragua

The Supreme Court commission supervising the revision of the country's outdated criminal codes and procedures continued its work, in coordination with the National Assembly's judicial commission. (references)

Zimbabwe

Domestic NGO's worked on human rights and democracy issues, including lobbying for revision of the POSB, increasing poor women's access to the courts, raising awareness of the abuse of children, eliminating irregularities in voter rolls, conducting voter education, preserving the independence of the judiciary, and eliminating torture, arbitrary detention, and restrictions on freedom of the press and assembly. (references)

Indigenous People

Mexico

In September Stavenhagen called for the resumption of dialog between the Government and the EZLN, as well as a review and revision of the COCOPA law. (references)

Minorities

Bhutan

Ethnic Nepalese political groups in exile complain that the revision of the country's citizenship laws in 1985 denaturalized tens of thousands of former residents of Bhutan. (references)

Latvia

In December 1999, the Parliament passed a revision of the Language Law, which went into effect on September 1, 2000. The Language Law regulates the uses of language that affect public safety, health care, protection of the consumer, and labor rights. (references)

Political Economy

DENMARK

Trademarks: Denmark is a party to the 1957 Nice Arrangement and to this arrangement's 1967 revision. (references)

HUNGARY

The Media Act revision would also limit any single cable provider to one-sixth of the household market. (references)

PERU

A major revision of the tax code was enacted at the end of 1992, and the tax authority (SUNAT) was completely revamped, as was the customs authority. (references)

Political Rights

Madagascar

There have been persistent calls by civic groups and opposition parties for reform and revision of electoral lists. (references)

Madagascar

The elections since the 1998 revision of the Constitution have seen the growing dominance of the President and his political party, AREMA. (references)

China

A 1998 revision to the law called for improvements in the nominating process and improved transparency in village committee administration. (references)

Trade

Bahrain

Imported and exported goods are classified according to the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC), Revision 3. (references)

Uzbekistan

In 1996 Uzbekistan undertook a comprehensive revision of its copyright law, but significant deficiencies remain in Uzbekistan's IPR regime. (references)

Dominican Rep

The Dominican Congress is currently discussing a revision to the country's financial and monetary code in an attempt to expand the flow of foreign capital into the country. (references)

Women

Japan

However, since the 1999 revision, there has been a 35 percent increase in consultations over workplace sexual harassment cases. (references)

Ethiopia

In 1999 the Ministry of Justice completed a revision of the 1957 Penal Code, and a national debate on the revisions continued during the year. (references)

Indonesia

NGO's and the Government appear to agree that the law needed revision; however, by year's end, the Government had not taken any action to remedy these problems. (references)

Worker Rights

Korea

However, no one has been charged for failing to register since the 1997 labor law revision. (references)

Japan

In addition the 1999 revision to the immigration law established penalties for illegal stays separate from existing injunctions against illegal entry. (references)

Malawi

However, the TWAB has encountered problems due to inefficient organizational structure and inadequate funding, which hindered timely and accurate revision of the wage rate recommendations. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "revision": agm Theory for Belief Revision ♦ belief revision ♦ revision book ♦ revision Control System ♦ revision course ♦ revision History ♦ revision identifier ♦ revision number ♦ under revision. Additional references.

Albanian

rishikim (overhaul, playback, review, revise), version i ripunuar, inspektim (inspection, preview, review, visitation). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تهذيب (breeding, cultivation, culture, discipline, edification, expurgation, polish, politeness, precept, pruning, purgation, refinement, reformation, retouch, sublimation, urbanity), ‏تنقيح (amendment, correction, emendation, redaction, retouch, review, revise), ‏تغيير (alteration, change, modification, modulation, transposal, variation), ‏طبعة منقحة (revised version). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ревизия (inspection, overhaul, visit), проверка (audit, check, checkup, probation, proof, tab, test, verification), преработено издание (redaction), преговор (review), повторно преглеждане, подобрено издание. (various references)

Chinese 

調整 (adjustment), 校訂 , 修正 (Amend, Amended, Amending, Correctional). (various references)

Czech

revize (check, examination, review), zmìna (alteration, amendment, break, change, changeover, mutation, relief, shift, transformation, variance, variation, vicissitude), přehlédnutí (goby, overlook, oversight, slip), opakování (iterance, recurrence, rehearsal, reiteration, repetition, retake). (various references)

Danish

revision (audit, auditing, inspection, overhaul), retouchering (retouching), ekstraordinaer genoptagelse, ekstraordinær genoptagelse. (various references)

Dutch

herziening (debt rearrangement, debt rescheduling, rescheduling, retrial, review, review proceedings). (various references)

Farsi 

مرور (Glance, Lapse, Perusal, Revisal, Tract), چاپ تازه (Reprint), چاپ اصلاح شده , تجدیدنظر (Reconsideration, Review, Revisal), اصلاح (Adjustment, Amendment, Correction, Reconciliation, Reformation, Regeneration, Renovation, Repair, Reparation), رسیدگی ثانوی , بازدید (Review, Survey, Visit), بازبینی (Control). (various references)

Finnish

uudistus (innovation, reform, renewal). (various references)

French

révision (recension, reconditioning, reconsideration, rehearing, reviewing, reviser). (various references)

German

Revision (appeal, audit, final proof-read, reconsideration, revisal), Redigieren (edit, editing), Durchsicht (check, examination, inspection, perusal), Abänderung (alteration, amendment, modification). (various references)

Greek 

αναθεώρηση (reconsideration, review). (various references)

Hebrew 

למידה חוזרת, למוד מחדש, שנון (ingenious, keen, learning, memorizing, pointed, repetition, salty, sharp, subtle, whetting, witty), שנוי (alteration, change, modification, mutation, shift, studied, turnover, variation), רביזיה. (various references)

Hungarian

felülvizsgálat (audit, check, re examination, review, verification). (various references)

Indonesian

revisi, perbaikan (betterment, emendation, improvement, reform, repair, restoration, upgrading). (various references)

Italian

revisione (audit, auditing, overhaul, review, revisal, reviser, service, servicing). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

訂正 (correction), 改訂 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ふせい (asymmetry, correction, dishonesty, illegality, impropriety, iniquity, injustice, irregular, irregularity, lack of uniformity, nature, negative properties, paternity, transient life, unevenness, unfairness), こうえつ, こうてい (affirmation, amount of work, best pupil, brotherly love, campus, distance, emperor, filial piety, flight, high and low, leading disciple, mine-pit bottom, official, official residence, path length, place of ceremony, positive, public place, rise and fall, run, sail, work schedule), こうせい (aggression, calibration, composition, constancy, correction, correction of press, fairness, fixed star, future generations, future life, hardness, impartiality, justice, life to come, loud or high-pitched voice, made of steel, matchless, offensive, organization, posterity, proofreading, public welfare, rebirth, rectification, regeneration, rehabilitation, reorganization, resuscitation, tropism, unparalleled, Welfare Ministry, younger people), かいてい (bottom of the ocean, court session, guide, ladder, reform, step, stepping-stone, trial), かいはん (distribution of type, revised edition), かいやく (cancellation of contract, retranslation), ていせい (correction, imperial government, imperialism, low voice, monarchical rule, music of the state of Zheng, qualitative, stability of a substance, whisper), かひつ (correction, improvement), すいこう (accomplishment, elaboration on, execution, hydroponics, improvement, polish, speculation, surmising), ふくしゅう (revenge, review), さてい (assessment, audit, investigation), さんしゅう (assembling, reform, three autumn months, three years), しゅうてい (boat, correction, watercraft), しゅうせい (adjustment, aggregation, all one's life, alteration, amendment, correction, lifelong, modification, retouching, sound of the autumn wind, trait, update), リビジョン , ぜせい (correction, master painter), かいせい (alteration, amendment, changing one's family name, good weather, harmonious voice, Kaisei, resurrection, resuscitation, vocal harmony). (various references)

Korean 

개정 (Amendment, Correction, rectification). (various references)

Manx

scrutaghey (audit, check over, checking, examine, inspect, vet, vetting), lhiasaghey (amendment, appendix, appendix book, atone, atonement, compensate, compensation, correct, correct as text, correction, cultivate, cultivation, culture, cure, curing, develop, developing, dress, dressing, dung, dunging, enrich, expiate, expiation, fertilize, fertilizer, furtherance, husband, husband as land, improvement, imputation, manure, manuring, propitiate, propitiation, reclaim, reclamation, recompense, repair, replenish, replenishment, restitution, revise, rub up, season), karraghey (cobble, darn, doctor, fix, overhaul; cobbling, patch, repair, revise), aavriwnys (reconsideration, review), aastudeyrys. (various references)

Pig Latin

evisionray

Portuguese

revisão (inspection, overhaul, reading, redaction, review, revise). (various references)

Romanian

revizuire (recension, redaction, review, revisal), reviziune, revizie (control, examination, inspection), revedere. (various references)

Russian 

ревизия (audit), проверка (check, check-out, checkup, control, inspection, proof, review, revise, test, try-out, verification). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

revizija (audit, checkup, revise), prerađeno izdanje, ispravljanje (correction, rectification). (various references)

Spanish

revisión (audit, exam, overhaul, retrial, review, revise, service). (various references)

Swedish

revision (audit, auditing, readjustment), ändring (alteration, amendment, change, changing, conversion, modification, switch, transformation). (various references)

Turkish

revizyon (review, revisal, revise, turnaround), tashih (correction, revise), gözden geçirme (overhaul), düzeltme yapma, düzeltilmiş baskı (revise). (various references)

Ukranian 

ревізія (audit, checkup, overhaul), переробка (adaptation, alteration, elaboration, readjustment, recast, remake), перегляд (overhaul, reconsideration, rethink, run through, scan). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự xem lại, sự xét lại, sự duyệt lại sự sửa lại. (various references)

lima. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "revision": revisionary, revisionism, revisionisms, revisionist, revisionists, revisions. (additional references)

Words ending with "revision": prevision. (additional references)

Words containing "revision": prerevisionist, prerevisionists, previsional, previsionary, previsioned, previsioning, previsions. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Revision" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Evysdon, jeevesian, Ravasio, reevesiana, reevesii, Remijio, Renilson, Renison, repition, revation, revison, Revson, riviniana, Trevisan, Trevisani, Trevisano, verision. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: ironies, ivories, noisier, renvois, version, virions.

-2 letters: envois, ionise, irones, nosier, ovines, renvoi, senior, vinier, vireos, virion, vision.

-3 letters: envoi, eosin, irone, irons, ivies, nisei, noirs, noise, noris, ornis, osier, ovens, overs, ovine, reins, resin, rinse, risen, riven, rives, rosin, roven, roves, senor, serin, servo, siren, siver, snore, veins, verso, viers, vines, vinos.

+1 letter: diversion, inversion, prevision, revisions, vibriones.

+2 letters: diversions, inversions, previsions, redivision, reinvasion, vanitories, vermilions.

+3 letters: ambiversion, derivations, discovering, insectivore, inventories, invigorates, nervosities, overfishing, overissuing, preinvasion, previsional, previsioned, provisioned, provisioner, redivisions, reinvasions, reprovision, revisionary, revisionism, revisionist, silverpoint, supervision, vainglories, vermillions, vertiginous, visionaries, voiceprints.

+4 letters: ambiversions, constrictive, deprivations, diversionary, diversionist, evisceration, griseofulvin, innervations, insectivores, introversion, introversive, investigator, invitatories, irresponsive, misconceiver, misgoverning, nonintrusive, overinsuring, overpraising, overslipping, overstirring, overstriding, overstriking, overswinging, previsionary, previsioning, provisioners, redissolving, reinventions, reprovisions, revisionisms, revisionists, rhinoviruses, silverpoints, supervisions, variegations.

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