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1. The act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration and modification)
   "it would require a drastic revision of his opinion";
   - alteration
    
2. The act of rewriting something
   - revisal, revise, rescript
    
3. Something that has been written again
   "the revision was much better";
   - rewrite, rescript
    
4. [Brit] Studying material in preparation for a test or examination
   "All that last minute revision really payed off in the exam!"

Derived forms: revisions

Type of: piece of writing, revising, rewriting, transformation, translation, writing, written material

Encyclopedia: Revision