# version

Pronunciation: say "VUR-zhuhn" US /ˈvɝʒən/, UK /ˈvɜːʒn̩/

## Noun

1. A particular form or variation of something, including a numbered release of software, firmware, or hardware.
   - Simple: One particular form of something, such as a numbered release of a computer program.
   - _The museum displayed an early version of the telephone next to a modern model._
   - _Different versions of the legend appear in cultures across the region._
2. An account or description given from one person's standpoint, especially as set against a different account.
   - Simple: One person's way of telling what happened, which may not match another person's story.
   - _The witness gave a version of events that contradicted the official report._
   - _Each sibling had a different version of how the family feud began._
3. A translation of a text from one language into another.
   - Simple: A text that has been put into another language.
   - _Scholars still debate which version of the poem best captures the original Greek._
   - _The library holds three versions of the epic, each by a different translator._

## Verb

4. To keep track of a file, document, or other resource in a versioning system, so that earlier revisions remain available.
   - Simple: To store a file in a system that keeps its earlier saved copies, so you can go back to them.
   - _The lab versions its data sets to keep experiments reproducible._
   - _Developers version their configuration files alongside the source code._

## Noun

5. An assignment given at school that usually asks for a text written in a language other than the student's own. *(archaic)*
   - Simple: A school exercise in which students wrote in a foreign language.
6. A change of form, direction, or state; a transformation or conversion. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: A change from one form, state, or direction into another.

## Other meanings

- (noun) An instrumental recording of a song, especially the B-side of a reggae single, played in sound system culture for deejays to perform over.
- (noun) A turn of both eyes together, with each moving through an equal angle in the same direction.
- (noun) A condition in which the axis of the uterus is tilted from its normal position without the organ bending on itself.
- (noun) An obstetric maneuver in which a doctor or midwife rotates an unborn baby within the uterus so it is better positioned for birth.

## Origin

Latin vertō ("I turn") led to Medieval Latin versiō and then Middle French version, which English has used since the 16th century.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/version (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).