the form in which a text (especially a printed book) is published

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'

an issue of a newspaper; he read it in yesterday's edition of the Times'

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 ]