revision
/ɹəˈvɪʒ.ən/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.82 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Australian usage; New Zealand usage; British usage; Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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, […] ."
- "Many formalisms for belief revision use extraneous mechanisms for deciding what beliefs to keep and this makes it harder to iterate the process."
- "All that last minute revision really paid off in the exam! I got top marks!"
- "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."
Etymology
Borrowed from French révision, from Latin revīsiō.
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: révision, revīsiō
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɹəˈvɪʒ.ən/
- British English: /ɹɪˈvɪʒ.ən/
Usage
- Countable
- Uncountable
- Australian usage
- New Zealand usage
- British usage