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Edition vs Printing - What's the difference?

edition | printing |

As nouns the difference between edition and printing

is that edition is a literary work edited and published, as by a certain editor or in a certain manner while printing is the process or business of producing printed material by means of inked type and a printing press or similar technology.

As a verb printing is

present participle of lang=en.

edition

English

Noun

(wikipedia edition) (en noun)
  • A literary work edited and published, as by a certain editor or in a certain manner.
  • The whole number of copies of a work printed and published at one time; as, the first edition was soon sold.
  • Derived terms

    * bulldog edition

    printing

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The process or business of producing printed material by means of inked type and a printing press or similar technology.
  • (uncountable) Material that has been printed.
  • (countable) All the copies of a publication that have been printed in one batch.
  • (uncountable) Written characters that are not joined up.
  • Verb

    (head)