Dictionary Definition
emendation n : a correction by emending; a
correction resulting from critical editing
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -eɪʃǝn
Noun
- The act of altering for the better, or correcting what is erroneous or faulty; correction; improvement.
- Alteration by editorial criticism, as of a text so as to give a better reading; removal of errors or corruptions from a document; as, the book might be improved by judicious emendations.
Quotations
- 1922, Virginia
Woolf, Jacob's
Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 157
- Then, less melodiously, dissenters of different sects issue a cantankerous emendation.
Extensive Definition
Improve means to make something better. It may also refer
to:
Improver
wikt improver- Bread improver
- Improver Corporation: Improver v Remington, a 1990 United Kingdom patent infringement law court case
Improved
wikt improved- Improved clinch knot, a knot
- Most Improved Player, a sports award
- New and
improved, a popular advertising
slogan
- New and Improved, a 2001 music album by Mice
- Improved Order of Heptasophs, an 1878 fraternal organization
Technology
- LNWR Improved Precedent Class, a steam locomotive
- Improved-definition television (IDTV)
- Improved Touring, a category of classifications for cars in amateur road racing
- Improved Orion, a sounding rocket
Improvement
wikt improvement- Improvement Era, magazine of the Church of the Latter-Day Saints from 1897-1970
- Home improvement, the process of renovating or making additions to a home
- Home Improvement, a 1990s television show
- Airport Improvement Fee
- Natural vision improvement
Government
- Improvement commissioners, an early form of government in 18th-century Britain
- Improvement and Development Agency, a 1998 British governmental agency
- Improvement district
- Land improvement
- Improvement district
- Capital Improvement Plan
- Environmental Quality Improvement Act
Healthcare
- Quality improvement organizations
- The Health Improvement Network, a United Kingdom medical database
Organizational
- Achievement Improvement Monitor, an Australian educational testing system
- Improvement trust
- Ontario Swine Improvement
- Organic Crop Improvement Association
- South Improvement Company, a railroad-oil-related Pennsylvania corporation in the early 1870s
- Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League
Technology
- Network Improvement, in telecommunications
- Preemphasis improvement, in radio
- Improved Multi-Band Excitation, a vocoder
- Improvement Support Systems
Wikipedia
emendation in Korean: 개선