Definitionen
1.NounA census, an enumeration, a review, a survey.
2.NounA critical revision of a text.
3.NounA text established by critical revision.
4.NounA family of manuscripts which share similar traits; the variety of a language which is used in such manuscripts."The existence of two major literary centres in the First Bulgarian Empire led to the emergence of two recensions of Old Church Slavonic: the Bulgarian Recension and the Macedonian Recension.; The Russian recension of Old Church Slavonic emerged after the 10th century and was characterized by the substitution of /u/ for the nasal sound /õ/."