emendations
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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.”
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