Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A description or account from one point of view, especially as opposed to another.
  • noun A translation of a text from another language.
  • noun A translation of the entire Bible or a part of it.
  • noun A particular form or variation of an earlier or original type.
  • noun An adaptation of a work of art or literature into another medium or style.
  • noun Manipulation of a fetus in the uterus to bring it into a desirable position for delivery.
  • noun Deflection of an organ, such as the uterus, from its normal position.
  • transitive verb To assign a unique number or name to distinct versions of (a file or program, for example).

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A turning round or about; change of direction.
  • noun A change or transformation; conversion.
  • noun The act of translating, or rendering from one language into another.
  • noun A translation; that which is rendered from another language. A list of versions of the Bible will be found under the word Bible.
  • noun A statement, account, or description of incidents or proceedings from some particular point of view: as, the other party's version of the affair.
  • noun A school exercise consisting of a translation from one language, generally one's own, into another.
  • noun In obstetrics, a manipulation whereby a malposition of the child is rectified, during delivery, by bringing the head or the feet into the line of the axis of the parturient canal; turning.
  • noun In mathematical physics, the measure of the direction and magnitude of the rotation about a neighboring point produced by any vector function distributed through space.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A change of form, direction, or the like; transformation; conversion; turning.
  • noun (Med.) A condition of the uterus in which its axis is deflected from its normal position without being bent upon itself. See Anteversion, and Retroversion.
  • noun The act of translating, or rendering, from one language into another language.
  • noun A translation; that which is rendered from another language.
  • noun An account or description from a particular point of view, especially as contrasted with another account.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A specific form or variation of something.
  • noun A translation from one language to another.
  • noun obsolete The act of translating, or rendering, from one language into another language.
  • noun An account or description from a particular point of view, especially as contrasted with another account
  • noun computing A particular revision (of software, firmware, CPU, etc.).
  • noun 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.
  • noun ophthalmology An eye movement involving both eyes moving synchronously and symmetrically in the same direction.
  • noun A change of form, direction, etc.; transformation; conversion.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an interpretation of a matter from a particular viewpoint
  • noun manual turning of a fetus in the uterus (usually to aid delivery)
  • noun a mental representation of the meaning or significance of something
  • noun something a little different from others of the same type
  • noun a written work (as a novel) that has been recast in a new form
  • noun a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French, from Old French, act of turning, from Medieval Latin versiō, versiōn-, from Latin versus, past participle of vertere, to turn; see wer- in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle French version, from Medieval Latin versiō ("a turning"), from Latin vertō ("to turn"). Used in English since 16th century.

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  • version Maybe we can use it as a verb! For example: She versions it to English.

    October 2, 2017