version

A specific form or variation of something.

Noun

  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...
    • 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. A school exercise, generally of composition in a foreign language.
  4. 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. A particular revision (of software, firmware, CPU, etc.).
    • Upgrade to the latest version for new features and bug fixes.
  7. 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. An eye movement involving both eyes moving synchronously and symmetrically in the same direction.
  9. 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...
  10. 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:

Origin

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

Forms

versions

Synonyms

ver ver. adaptation interpretation rendition variant

Related

abversion adversion animadversion aversion contraversion controversion conversion diversion eversion furversion interversion inversion obversion perversion reversion subversion traversion

Derived

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

Verb

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

Forms

versions versioning versioned

Related

bible CVS revision control versioning