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Version vs Perspective - What's the difference?

version | perspective |

As nouns the difference between version and perspective

is that version is version while perspective is a view, vista or outlook.

As an adjective perspective is

of, in or relating to perspective.

version

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A specific form or variation of something.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=3 citation , passage=‘[…] There's every Staffordshire crime-piece ever made in this cabinet, and that's unique. The Van Hoyer Museum in New York hasn't that very rare second version of Maria Marten's Red Barn over there, nor the little Frederick George Manning—he was the criminal Dickens saw hanged on the roof of the gaol in Horsemonger Lane, by the way—’}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-03
    • , author=Frank Fish, George Lauder , title=Not Just Going with the Flow , volume=101, issue=2, page=114 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex . The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.}}
  • A translation from one language to another.
  • (obsolete) The act of translating, or rendering, from one language into another language.
  • An account or description from a particular point of view, especially as contrasted with another account.
  • (computing) A particular revision (of software, firmware, CPU, etc.).
  • (medicine) A condition of the uterus in which its axis is deflected from its normal position without being bent upon itself. See anteversion and retroversion.
  • (ophthalmology) An eye movement involving both eyes moving synchronously and symmetrically in the same direction.
  • (obsolete, or, medicine) A change of form, direction, etc.; transformation; conversion.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • The version of air into water.

    Synonyms

    * ver,

    See also

    * CVS * revision control * versioning * bible

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (computing) To keep track of (a file, document, etc.) in a versioning system.

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    perspective

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A view, vista or outlook.
  • The appearance of depth in objects, especially as perceived using binocular vision.
  • The technique of representing three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional surface.
  • (figuratively) The choice of a single angle or point of view from which to sense, categorize, measure or codify experience.
  • The ability to consider things in such relative perspective
  • A perspective glass.
  • * Bishop Joseph Hall
  • A sound recording technique to adjust and integrate sound sources seemingly naturally.

    • Derived terms

    * linear perspective * metaperspective * microperspective * put something into perspective

    Related terms

    * perspicacious * perspicacity * perspicuity * perspicuous * perspicuously

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • of, in or relating to perspective
    • a perspective drawing
  • (obsolete) providing visual aid; of or relating to the science of vision; optical
    • (Francis Bacon)