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Improvision

//ˌɪm.pɹəˈvɪʒ.ən// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    the lack of provision, a failure to provide something obsolete

    "there would be a main defect, and her improvision justly accusable, if such a feeding animal […] should want a proper conveyance for choler, or have no other receptacle for that humour than the veins and general mass of blood."

  2. 2
    the act of improvising, or something improvised; improvisation

    "A similar improvision, a modification of the device used to measure the planar ways (photo 8), makes several measurements at once."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From im- + provision.

Etymology 2

From improvise + -ion.

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