Definition of "version"

version

/ˈvɝʒən/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural versions
1. A specific form or variation of something.
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  ‘[…] 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
  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, 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
2. A translation from one language to another.
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.
6. (computing) A particular revision (of software, firmware, CPU, etc.).
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.
  Quotations
  The version of air into water.
  1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […]
10. (music) An instrumental in sound system culture.
  Quotations
  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, page 168
verb
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.

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