[{"word":"emendations","phonetics":[],"meanings":[{"partOfSpeech":"noun","definitions":[{"definition":"The act of altering for the better, or correcting what is erroneous or faulty; correction; improvement.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"Alteration by editorial criticism, as of a text so as to give a better reading; removal of errors or corruptions from a document.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"The book might be improved by judicious emendations."},{"definition":"An intentional change in the spelling of a scientific name, which is usually not allowed.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"The genus name Uramyia is an unjustified emendation of Uramya even though it uses a better transliteration of the Greek word μυῖα."}],"synonyms":["revision"],"antonyms":[]}],"license":{"name":"CC BY-SA 3.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"},"sourceUrls":["https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/emendation","https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/emendations"]}]