revision

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the act of revising or altering, usually involving reconsideration and modification

   It would require a drastic revision of their opinion.

2. 2
   noun

   The process of revising:

   Revision can turn a passable paper into an excellent one and change an excellent one into a radiant one.

3. 3
   noun

   A changed edition, or new version; a modification.

   The first thing members need to understand about a revision is that the current bylaws are not under consideration at all. If the revision is defeated, no changes to the current bylaws take place.

4. 4
   noun

   A story corrected or expanded by a writer commissioned by the original author.

   A revision story

5. 5
   verb

   To provide with a new vision.

   What philosophy needs is to be revisioned with a more hopeful, engaged inspirational point of view.

6. 6
   noun

   something that has been written again

7. 7
   noun

   the act of rewriting something

Etymology

Borrowed from French révision, from Latin revīsiō.