different between revision vs recension

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?v?zh'?n, IPA^(key): /ri?v?.?(?)n/
• Rhymes: -???n

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French révision, from Latin rev?si?.

Noun

revision (countable and uncountable, plural revisions)

1. (uncountable) The process of revising:
   1. The action or process of reviewing, editing and amending.
      • 2002, James D. Lester, James D. Lester, Jr, Writing Research Papers, page 195,

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

      • 2004, Mara Kalnins (editor), Note on the Text, Joseph Conrad, Victory: An Island Tale, page xxxix,

        The full history of its composition, revision, transmission, and publication is a complex and intricate one beyond the necessarily limited scope of this Note, […] .

      • 2010, Dov M. Gabbay, Franz Guenthner (editors), Handbook of Philosophical Logic, Volume 16, page 37,

        Many formalisms for belief revision use extraneous mechanisms for deciding what beliefs to keep and this makes it harder to iterate the process.

   2. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) The action or process of reviewing something previously learned, especially one?s notes in preparation for a test or examination.
      • 2008, Philip A. Kalra (editor), Essential Revision Notes in Medicine for Students, Volume 1.
2. (countable) A changed edition, or new version; a modification.
   • 2004, Robert McConnell Productions, Henry M. Robert, Robert?s Rules of Order: Simplified and Applied, page 331,

     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.

   • 1992, Helen Baron, Carl Baron (editors), Introduction, The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H, Lawrence: Sons and Lovers, Part 1, 2002 paperback edition, Cambridge University Press, page lxxx,

     However, it is evident in a minority of cases that a revision by Lawrence is prompted solely by the need to remedy some local effect caused by Garnett?s deletion, and there, clearly, Lawrence?s MS text is, in principle, to be preferred.

   • 2008, World Bank, page 209,

     Previous editions of World Development Indicators used revision 2, first published in 1948. Revision 3 was completed in 1989, and many countries now use it. But revision 2 is still widely used for compiling cross-country data.

   • 2012, Bill Fane, David Byrnes, AutoCAD 2013 For Dummies, page 189,

     Include the revision number. You may need to add a triangle and number, shown in Figure 9-6, to indicate the revision number.

3. (countable) A story corrected or expanded by a writer commissioned by the original author.

Synonyms

• (UK, Australia, New Zealand: reviewing something previously learned): review (US)

Related terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From re- +? vision.

Verb

revision (third-person singular simple present revisions, present participle revisioning, simple past and past participle revisioned)

1. To provide with a new vision.

Anagrams

• ivorines, visioner

Finnish

Noun

revision

1. Genitive singular form of revisio.

Anagrams

• inversio

Swedish

Noun

revision c

1. a revision, an audit
2. a revision, a version, a change

Declension

Related terms

Anagrams

• visioner

English

Etymology

From Latin rec?nsi? (“enumeration; review; reassessment”), from rec?nse? (“to count, reckon; to examine, review; to go over, revise”), from re- (“prefix meaning ‘again’”) (from Proto-Italic *wre (“again”); further etymology uncertain) + c?nse? (“to give an opinion; to suppose, think; to assess”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *?n?seh?-, *?n?seye- (“to announce”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /????s?n?(?)n/
• (General American) enPR: r?-s?n?sh?n, -s?nsh?n, IPA^(key): /????s?n?(?)n/, [??????s??n(t?)???n], [-?s??n(t?)?n?]
• Rhymes: -?n??n
• Hyphenation UK: re?cens?ion, US: re?cen?sion

Noun

recension (plural recensions)

1. A census, an enumeration, a review, a survey.
2. A critical revision of a text.
3. A text established by critical revision.
4. A family of manuscripts which share similar traits; the variety of a language which is used in such manuscripts.

Derived terms

• recensionist

Related terms

• recense

Translations

See also

• redaction

Further reading

• recension on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• ninescore

French

Etymology

From Latin rec?nsi?.

Noun

recension f (plural recensions)

1. critique, review
2. recension

Further reading

• “recension” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Swedish

Noun

recension c

1. a critique, a review

Declension

Synonyms

• anmälan
• granskning
• kritik

Related terms

• recensera
• recensent

References

• Recension in Svenska Akademiens ordlista öfver svenska språket (6th ed., 1889)