recension

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: re=cen=sion

CIDE DICTIONARY

recension, n. [L. recensio: cf. F. recension.].

•  The act of reviewing or revising; review; examination; enumeration.  Barrow.  [1913 Webster]
•  Specifically, the review of a text (as of an ancient author) by an editor; critical revisal and establishment.  [1913 Webster]
•  The result of such a work; a text established by critical revision; an edited version.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

recension, n.
1 the revision of a text.
2 a particular form or version of a text resulting from such revision.

Etymology

L recensio f. recensere revise (as RE-, censere review)

THESAURUS

recension

amendment, article, autograph, brainchild, composition, computer printout, copy, correction, document, draft, edited version, editing, emendation, engrossment, essay, fair copy, fiction, final draft, finished version, first draft, flimsy, holograph, letter, literae scriptae, literary artefact, literary production, literature, lucubration, manuscript, matter, nonfiction, opus, original, paper, parchment, penscript, piece, piece of writing, play, poem, printed matter, printout, production, reading matter, rectification, redaction, redraft, rescript, rescription, revampment, review, revisal, revise, revised edition, revision, rewrite, rewriting, screed, scrip, script, scrive, scroll, second draft, the written word, transcript, transcription, typescript, version, work, writing

ROGET THESAURUS

recension

Numeration

N numeration, numbering, pagination, tale, recension, enumeration, summation, reckoning, computation, supputation, calculation, calculus, algorithm, algorism, rhabdology, dactylonomy, measurement, statistics, arithmetic, analysis, algebra, geometry, analytical geometry, fluxions, differential calculus, integral calculus, infinitesimal calculus, calculus of differences, dead reckoning, muster, poll, census, capitation, roll call, recapitulation, account, notation, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, rule of three, practice, equations, extraction of roots, reduction, involution, evolution, estimation, approximation, interpolation, differentiation, integration, abacus, logometer, slide rule, slipstick, tallies, Napier's bones, calculating machine, difference engine, suan- pan, adding machine, cash register, electronic calculator, calculator, computer, arithmetician, calculator, abacist, algebraist, mathematician, statistician, geometer, programmer, accountant, auditor, numeral, numerical, arithmetical, analytic, algebraic, statistical, numerable, computable, calculable, commensurable, commensurate, incommensurable, incommensurate, innumerable, unfathomable, infinite, quantitatively, arithmetically, measurably, in numbers.