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, philology, and of literary criticism that is concerned with the identification of textual variants, or different versions, of either manuscripts or of printed books. Such texts may range in d ...
, 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 justi ...
, 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
The circumscription theory is a theory of the role of warfare in state formation in political anthropology, created ...
of a taxon
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