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語源

From Middle French version, from Medieval Latin versiō, from Latin vertō (“I turn”). Used in English since 16th century.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈvɜːʒn̩/, /ˈvɜːʃn̩/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈvɝʒən/
• 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)ʒən

名詞

version (countable and uncountable, plural versions)

1. A specific form or variation of something.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     ‘ […]  There's every Staffordshire crime-piece ever made in this cabinet, and that's unique. The Van Hoyer Museum in New York hasn't that very rare second version of Maria Marten's Red Barn over there, nor the little Frederick George Manning—he was the criminal Dickens saw hanged on the roof of the gaol in Horsemonger Lane, by the way—’

   • 2013 March, Frank Fish, George Lauder, “Not Just Going with the Flow”, in American Scientist‎, volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 1 May 2013, page 114:

     An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex. The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.

2. A translation from one language to another.

   It's only in the King James Version of the Bible.

3. (education, archaic) A school exercise, generally of composition in a foreign language.
4. (obsolete) The act of translating, or rendering, from one language into another language.
5. An account or description from a particular point of view, especially as contrasted with another account.

   He gave another version of the affair.

6. (computing) A particular revision (of software, firmware, CPU, etc.).

   Upgrade to the latest version for new features and bug fixes.

7. (medicine) A condition of the uterus in which its axis is deflected from its normal position without being bent upon itself. See anteversion and retroversion.
8. (ophthalmology) An eye movement involving both eyes moving synchronously and symmetrically in the same direction.
9. (obsolete or medicine) A change of form, direction, etc.; transformation; conversion.

   External cephalic version is a process by which a breech baby can sometimes be turned from buttocks or foot first to head first.

   • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

     The version of air into water.

10. (music) An instrumental in sound system culture.
    • 2014, Richard James Burgess, The History of Music Production, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 168:

      Out of sound system culture came the instrumental “version” (ubiquitous in late 1960s Jamaica) […]

同意語

• ver, ver. (abbreviations)
• adaptation, interpretation, rendition, variant

派生語

動詞

version (third-person singular simple present versions, present participle versioning, simple past and past participle versioned)

1. (transitive, computing) To keep track of (a file, document, etc.) in a versioning system.

参考

• CVS
• revision control
• versioning
• bible

アナグラム

• Iverson, enviros, renvois