English

Noun

updation ‎(plural updations)

1. (India, nonstandard) The act or process of updating something.
   • 1998, C. Xavier, S. S. Iyengar, Introduction to Parallel Algorithms, p209

     The above updation can be done through each vertex k.

   • 2001, C. Siva Ram Murthy and G. Manimaran, Resource Management in Real-Time Systems and Networks, p437

     It then sends a message to the table updation object to create a new entry in the track table using the relevant information extracted from the flight plan table.

   • 2005, Sanjit Chatterjee, Palash Sarkar, and Rana Barua, Efficient Computation of Tate Pairing in Projective Coordinate over General Characteristic Fields, in Choonsik Park, Seongtaek Chee (eds.), Information Security and Cryptology - ICISC 2004, p175

     The cost of updation in Line 7 is three F_p multiplications.

Usage notes

• This word is mainly used in India instead of update as a noun.

References

• WordWeb Online
• Dictionary of Indian English