version

noun, verb — 11 senses

version

noun

UK /ˈvɜːʒn̩/ · US /ˈvɝʒən/

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

10 senses
  1. 1A specific form or variation of something.
  2. 2A translation from one language to another.
  3. 3A school exercise, generally of composition in a foreign…
  4. 4The act of translating, or rendering, from one language…
  5. 5An account or description from a particular point of…
  6. 6A particular revision (of software, firmware, CPU, etc.).
  7. 7A condition of the uterus in which its axis is deflected…
  8. 8An eye movement involving both eyes moving synchronously…
  9. 9A change of form, direction, etc.; transformation; conversion.
  10. 10An instrumental in sound system culture.
1

A specific form or variation of something.

  • ‘[…] 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—’1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
  • 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.2013 March 23, Frank Fish, George Lauder, “Not Just Going with the Flow”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 01 May 2013, page 114:
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, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A particular revision (of software, firmware, CPU, etc.).

  • Upgrade to the latest version for new features and bug fixes.
7

Medicine, Sciences 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

Medicine, Ophthalmology, Sciences An eye movement involving both eyes moving synchronously and symmetrically in the same direction.

9

Medicine, Sciences Obsolete 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.
  • The version of air into water.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:
10

Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music An instrumental in sound system culture.

  • Out of sound system culture came the instrumental “version” (ubiquitous in late 1960s Jamaica)[…]2014, Richard James Burgess, The History of Music Production, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 168:
Synonyms
ver, ver., adaptation, interpretation, rendition, variant
Derived terms
alpha version, beta version, Boston version, CliffsNotes version, cover version, e-version, instrumental version, miniversion, multiversion, pilot version, podalic version, pre-alpha version, Reader's Digest version, release version, subversion, -version, version control, version number, zombie version
Related terms
abversion, adversion, animadversion, aversion, contraversion, controversion, conversion, diversion, eversion, furversion, interversion, inversion, obversion, perversion, reversion, subversion, traversion

version

verb

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

1

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences To keep track of (a file, document, etc.) in a versioning system.

Related terms
bible, CVS, revision control, versioning

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