edition (noun)
1: the form in which a text (especially a printed book) is published
2: 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"
3: an issue of a newspaper; "he read it in yesterday's edition of the Times"
4: something a little different from others of the same type; "an experimental version of the night fighter"; "an emery wheel is a modern variant of the grindstone"; "the boy is a younger edition of his father" [syn: version, variant, variation]