revision

1. (uncountable) The process of revising:Examples: "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."countableuncountable

2. (uncountable) The process of revising:Examples: "All that last minute revision really paid off in the exam! I got top marks!"Synonyms: reviewAustraliaNew-ZealandUKcountableuncountable

3. (countable) A changed edition, or new version; a modification.Examples: "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."countable

4. (countable) A story corrected or expanded by a writer commissioned by the original author.Examples: "A revision story"countable