revision

Definition

The process of revising:

Etymology

Borrowed from French révision, from Latin revīsiō.

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."

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