The difference between Version and Versioning

When used as nouns, version means a specific form or variation of something, whereas versioning means the use of versions as a means of distinguishing similar items.


Version is also verb with the meaning: to keep track of (a file, document, etc.) in a versioning system.

check bellow for the other definitions of Version and Versioning

  1. Version as a noun:

    A specific form or variation of something.

  2. Version as a noun:

    A translation from one language to another.

    Examples:

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

  3. Version as a noun (education, archaic):

    A school exercise, generally of composition in a foreign language.

  4. Version as a noun (obsolete):

    The act of translating, or rendering, from one language into another language.

  5. Version as a noun:

    An account or description from a particular point of view, especially as contrasted with another account.

    Examples:

    "He gave another version of the affair."

  6. Version as a noun (computing):

    A particular revision (of software, firmware, CPU, etc.).

    Examples:

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

  7. Version as a noun (medicine):

    A condition of the uterus in which its axis is deflected from its normal position without being bent upon itself. See anteversion and retroversion.

  8. Version as a noun (ophthalmology):

    An eye movement involving both eyes moving synchronously and symmetrically in the same direction.

  9. Version as a noun (obsolete, or, medicine):

    A change of form, direction, etc.; transformation; conversion.

    Examples:

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

  1. Version as a verb (transitive, computing):

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

  1. Versioning as a noun (computing):

    The use of versions as a means of distinguishing similar items.

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