# revision
## English
### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ɹɪˈvɪʒ.ən/, [ɹɪˈvɪʒ.n̩]
* (US) enPR: rəvĭzh'ən, rĭvĭzh'ən, IPA: /ɹəˈvɪʒ.ən/, [ɹəˈvɪʒ.n̩], /ɹɪˈvɪʒ.ən/, [ɹɪˈvɪʒ.n̩]
* (Canada) IPA: /ɹɪˈvɪʒ.ən/, [ɹɪˈvɪʒ.n̩]
* (General Australian) IPA: /ɹəˈvɪʒ.ən/, [ɹəˈvɪʒ.n̩]
** Audio (Queensland):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪʒən

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from French révision, from Latin revīsiō.

#### Noun

revision (countable and uncountable, plural revisions)
* (uncountable) The process of revising:
** 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.
** (UK, Australia, New Zealand) The action or process of reviewing something previously learned, especially one′s notes in preparation for a test or examination.
    All that last minute revision really paid off in the exam! I got top marks!
*** 2008, Philip A. Kalra, editor, Essential Revision Notes in Medicine for Students‎, volume 1:
* (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.
* (countable) A story corrected or expanded by a writer commissioned by the original author.
    A revision story

##### Synonyms

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

##### Derived terms

* revision cloud
* revision week

##### Related terms

* review
* revisal
* revise
* revisionary
* revisionist

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From re- +‎ vision.

#### Verb

revision (third-person singular simple present revisions, present participle revisioning, simple past and past participle revisioned)
* To provide with a new vision.
    What philosophy needs is to be revisioned with a more hopeful, engaged inspirational point of view.
** 1991 April 19, Michael Bronski, “Overtly Gay”, in Gay Community News, page 16:Earlier plays of the Broadway comedy genre focused on assimilation […] By re-imagining and re-visioning classic Broadway comedy as a parable of gay growth, Allen has illuminted the original style and given us something new that is both fresh and funny.

### Anagrams

* ivorines, visioner

## Finnish
### Noun

revision
* genitive singular of revisio

### Anagrams

* inversio

## Swedish
### Noun

revision c
* an audit
* a revision (change)

#### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | revision | revisions |
| singular | definite | revisionen | revisionens |
| plural | indefinite | revisioner | revisioners |
| plural | definite | revisionerna | revisionernas |

#### Related terms

* revidera
* revisionism
* revisionist
* revisionsbyrå
* revisionshistorik
* revisor
* Riksrevisionen

### References

* revision in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* revision in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* revision in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

### Anagrams

* visioner