An emendation is an alteration to a term, for a specific technical reason:
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Emendation (textual)
Textual criticism is a branch of textual scholarship
Textual scholarship (or textual studies) is an umbrella term for disciplines that deal with describing, transcribing, editing or annotating texts and physical documents.
Overview
Textual rese ...
, altering a word to make sense, e.g. when incomplete or assumed to have been copied incorrectly
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Emendation (zoology)
In zoological nomenclature, emendations are alterations made to the spelling of taxon names. In bacteriological nomenclature, emendations are made to the circumscription of a taxon.
In zoology
The change must be consciously made along with justif ...
, altering the spelling of the name of a taxon to comply with the rules
* In bacteriological taxonomy, altering a name for
circumscription
Circumscription may refer to:
*Circumscribed circle
*Circumscription (logic)
*Circumscription (taxonomy)
* Circumscription theory, a theory about the origins of the political state in the history of human evolution proposed by the American anthrop ...
of a taxon
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