versioning
nounEtymology From version + -ing.
1
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Usually The use of versions as a means of distinguishing similar items.
- There have been many proposals to incorporate versioning in object-oriented databases.1993, Stefano Ceri, Katsumi Tanaka, Shalom Tsur, Deductive and Object-oriented Databases:
- 2005, Longley et al, Geographic Information Systems and Science An alternative to pessimistic locking is optimistic versioning.
- Hyponyms
- calendar versioning, semantic versioning