emendations
Meaning of emendations
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.
The book might be improved by judicious emendations.
- An intentional change in the spelling of a scientific name, which is usually not allowed.
The genus name Uramyia is an unjustified emendation of Uramya even though it uses a better transliteration of the Greek word μυῖα.
Information about emendations
- It is a name.
- The singular form of emendations is: emendation.
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Hyphenation of emendations
emen-da-tions
- It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
- emendations is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
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