emendation

Meaning of emendation

noun
  1. The act of altering for the better, or correcting what is erroneous or faulty; correction; improvement.
  2. Alteration by editorial criticism, as of a text so as to give a better reading; removal of errors or corruptions from a document.
    The book might be improved by judicious emendations.
  3. An intentional change in the spelling of a scientific name, which is usually not allowed.
    The genus name Uramyia is an unjustified emendation of Uramya even though it uses a better transliteration of the Greek word μυῖα.

Information about emendation

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of emendation is: emendations.
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Hyphenation of emendation

emen-da-tion

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
  • emendation is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

emendation synonyms

Meaning :

revision

Anagrams of emendation

denominate

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