version

plural versions

1. countableuncountableA specific form or variation of something.

   An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex. The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.

   2013 March 28, Frank Fish, George Lauder, “Not Just Going with the Flow”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 01 May 2013, page 114

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   ‘[…] There's every Staffordshire crime-piece ever made in this cabinet, and that's unique. The Van Hoyer Museum in New York hasn't that very rare second version of Maria Marten's Red Barn over there, nor the little Frederick George Manning—he was the criminal Dickens saw hanged on the roof of the gaol in Horsemonger Lane, by the way—’

   1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC

2. countableuncountableA translation from one language to another.

   It's only in the King James Version of the Bible.

3. archaiccountableuncountableeducationA school exercise, generally of composition in a foreign language.
4. countableobsoleteuncountableThe act of translating, or rendering, from one language into another language.
5. countableuncountableAn account or description from a particular point of view, especially as contrasted with another account.

   He gave another version of the affair.

6. countableuncountablecomputingA particular revision (of software, firmware, CPU, etc.).

   Upgrade to the latest version for new features and bug fixes.

7. countableuncountablemedicineA condition of the uterus in which its axis is deflected from its normal position without being bent upon itself. See anteversion and retroversion.
8. countableuncountablemedicineAn eye movement involving both eyes moving synchronously and symmetrically in the same direction.
9. countableobsoleteuncountablemedicineA change of form, direction, etc.; transformation; conversion.

   External cephalic version is a process by which a breech baby can sometimes be turned from buttocks or foot first to head first.

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   The version of air into water.

   1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC

10. countableuncountableentertainmentAn instrumental in sound system culture.

    Out of sound system culture came the instrumental “version” (ubiquitous in late 1960s Jamaica)[…]

    2014, Richard James Burgess, The History of Music Production, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 168

present singular third person versions · participle present versioning · participle past versioned · past versioned

1. transitivecomputingTo keep track of (a file, document, etc.) in a versioning system.