edition
    n 1: the form in which a text (especially a printed book) is
         published
    2: all of the identical copies of something offered to the
       public at the same time; "the first edition appeared in
       1920"; "it was too late for the morning edition"; "they
       issued a limited edition of Bach recordings"
    3: an issue of a newspaper; "he read it in yesterday's edition
       of the Times"
    4: something a little different from others of the same type;
       "an experimental version of the night fighter"; "a variant of
       the same word"; "an emery wheel is the modern variation of a
       grindstone"; "the boy is a younger edition of his father"
       [syn: version, variant, variation, edition]

Edition \E*di"tion\, n. [L. editio, fr. edere to publish; cf. F.
   ['e]dition. See Edit.]
   1. A literary work edited and published, as by a certain
      editor or in a certain manner; as, a good edition of
      Chaucer; Chalmers' edition of Shakespeare.
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   2. The whole number of copies of a work printed and published
      at one time; as, the first edition was soon sold.
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