different between version vs visibility

English

Etymology

From Middle French version, from Medieval Latin versi?, from Latin vert? (“I turn”). Used in English since 16th century.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?v???n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?v????n/, /?v????n/
• Rhymes: -??(?)??n

Noun

version (countable and uncountable, plural versions)

1. A specific form or variation of something.
2. A translation from one language to another.

3. (education, archaic) A school exercise, generally of composition in a foreign language.
4. (obsolete) The act of translating, or rendering, from one language into another language.
5. An account or description from a particular point of view, especially as contrasted with another account.

6. (computing) A particular revision (of software, firmware, CPU, etc.).

7. (medicine) A condition of the uterus in which its axis is deflected from its normal position without being bent upon itself. See anteversion and retroversion.
8. (ophthalmology) An eye movement involving both eyes moving synchronously and symmetrically in the same direction.
9. (obsolete or medicine) A change of form, direction, etc.; transformation; conversion.

Synonyms

• ver, ver. (abbreviations)

Translations

Verb

version (third-person singular simple present versions, present participle versioning, simple past and past participle versioned)

1. (transitive, computing) To keep track of (a file, document, etc.) in a versioning system.

Translations

See also

• CVS
• revision control
• versioning
• bible

Anagrams

• Iverson, enviros, renvois

Esperanto

Pronunciation

Noun

version

1. accusative singular of versio

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ersion/, [??e?rs?io?n]
• Rhymes: -ersion
• Syllabification: ver?si?on

Noun

version

1. Genitive singular form of versio.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v??.sj??/

Etymology 1

From Middle French version, from Medieval Latin versi? (“a turning”), from Latin vert? (“I turn”).

Noun

version f (plural versions)

1. version; model (a specific state, variant, or form of something)
2. a translation exercise
3. a translation
4. a specific manner of reporting a fact or event

Etymology 2

From verser

Noun

version f (plural versions)

1. (medicine) an obstetric maneuver to change the fetus' position inside the uterus so as to facilitate childbirth

Anagrams

• renvois, rêvions, vin rosé

Further reading

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

Interlingua

Noun

version (plural versiones)

1. version

Middle French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin versi?.

Noun

version f (plural versions)

1. translation

Occitan

Etymology

From Medieval Latin versi?.

Pronunciation

Noun

version f (plural versions)

1. version

Piedmontese

Alternative forms

• versiun

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?r?sju?/

Noun

version f (plural version)

1. version

Swedish

Etymology

From Medieval Latin versi?.

Noun

version c

1. version

Declension

Related terms

English

Etymology

From Middle French visibilité, from Late Latin visibilitas; equivalent to visible +? -ity.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?v?z.??b?l.?.ti/, /?v?z.??b?l.?.ti/, /?v?z.??b?l.?.ti/

Noun

visibility (countable and uncountable, plural visibilities)

1. (uncountable) The condition of being visible.
2. (countable) The degree to which things may be seen.

   The visibility from that angle was good.

3. (programming) The scope within which a variable or function is able to be accessed directly.
4. (obsolete, rare) Something worthy of being seen; a sight.
   • 1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford 2008, p. 658:

     ‘Sir, I have seen all the visibilities of Paris, and around it; but to have formed an acquaintance with the people there, would have required more time than I could stay.’

Synonyms

• apparency
• visibleness

Antonyms

• hiddenness
• invisibility
• latency

Derived terms

• high-visibility

Related terms

• visible
• visibly

Translations