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versioning

versioning

English

Noun

versioning (uncountable)

  1. (computing) The use of versions as a means of distinguishing similar items.
    • 1993, Stefano Ceri, Katsumi Tanaka, Shalom Tsur, Deductive and Object-oriented Databases
      There have been many proposals to incorporate versioning in object-oriented databases.
    • 2005, Longley et al, Geographic Information Systems and Science
      An alternative to pessimistic locking is optimistic versioning.

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