emendation

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of altering for the better, or correcting what is erroneous or faulty; correction; improvement. uncountable
    — ‘Aye, aye,’ quoth she, and it will be observed that no emendation whatever is necessary to be made in these two initiative remarks, ‘Aye, aye! […]
  2. Alteration by editorial criticism, as of a text so as to give a better reading; removal of errors or corruptions from a document. countable
    — The book might be improved by judicious emendations.
  3. An intentional change in the spelling of a scientific name, which is usually not allowed. countable,uncountable
    — The genus name Uramyia is an unjustified emendation of Uramya even though it uses a better transliteration of the Greek word μυῖα.

词形变化

emendations plural

词汇关系

近义词
revision
衍生词
nonemendation

词源

From Middle English emendatioun, from Latin ēmendātiō; equivalent to emend + -ation. Piecewise doublet of amendation.
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