revisionとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Borrowed from French révision, from Latin revīsiō.

名詞

revision (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 revisions)

1. (uncountable) The process of revising:
   1. 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.

   2. (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.
2. (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.

3. (countable) A story corrected or expanded by a writer commissioned by the original author.

   A revision story

同意語

• (英国用法, Australia, New Zealand: reviewing something previously learned): review (米国用法)

関連する語

語源 2

From re- +‎ vision.

動詞

revision (三人称単数 現在形 revisions, 現在分詞 revisioning, 過去形および過去分詞形 revisioned)

1. To provide with a new vision.

   What philosophy needs is to be revisioned with a more hopeful, engaged inspirational point of view.

アナグラム

• ivorines, visioner