Usually means: Correction or revision of text.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word emendation:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. emendation: Merriam-Webster
  2. emendation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. emendation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. emendation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. emendation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Emendation, emendation: Wordnik
  7. emendation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. emendation: Wiktionary
  9. emendation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. emendation: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Emendation, emendation: Dictionary.com
  12. Emendation (taxonomy), Emendation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Emendation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. emendation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. emendation: Rhymezone
  16. Emendation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. emendation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. emendation: FreeDictionary.org
  19. emendation: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. emendation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. emendation: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. emendation: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. emendation: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. emendation: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (emendation)

noun:  (uncountable) The act of altering for the better, or correcting what is erroneous or faulty; correction; improvement.
noun:  (countable) Alteration by editorial criticism, as of a text so as to give a better reading; removal of errors or corruptions from a document.
noun:  (zoology, taxonomy) An intentional change in the spelling of a scientific name, which is usually not allowed.

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