version

English

/ˈvɝʒən/, /ˈvɜːʒən/

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

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French version derived from Latin versiō, vertō (turn, I turn, spin) root from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (turn, rotate, wind, spin, twist, become, bend, turn out).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*wert-

Gloss

turn, rotate, wind, spin, twist, become, bend, turn out

Concept
Semantic Field

Motion

Ontological Category

Action/Process

Kanji

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