amendment

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The act of changing for the better; improvement: "Society may sometimes show signs of repentance and amendment” ( George G. Coulton).
2. n. A correction or alteration, as in a manuscript.
3. n. The process of formally altering or adding to a document or record.
4. n. A statement of such an alteration or addition: The 19th Amendment to the Constitution gave women the right to vote.
5. n. A material, such as organic matter or sand, mixed into soil to improve growing conditions.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The act of freeing from faults; the act of making better, or of changing for the better; correction; improvement; reformation: as, “amendment of life,”
2. n. The act of becoming better, or the state of having become better; specifically, recovery of health.
3. n. In deliberative assemblies, an alteration proposed to be made in the draft of a bill, or in the terms of a motion under discussion. Any such alteration is termed an amendment, even when its effect is entirely to reverse the sense of the original bill or motion.
4. n. An alteration of a legislative or deliberative act or in a constitution; a change made in a law, either by way of correction or addition. Ammendments to the Constitution of the United States may be proposed by a majority of two thirds of both houses of Congress, or by a convention summoned by Congress on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the States, and enacted by their ratification by the legislatures of three fourths of the States, or by conventions in three fourths of them, as Congress may determine.
5. n. In law, the correction of an error in a writ, record, or other judicial document.
6. n. Compensation; reparation. Chaucer, Reeve's Tale. Synonyms Emendation, betterment. Reform, etc. See reformation.

Wiktionary

1. n. An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.
2. n. In public bodies; Any alteration made or proposed to be made in a bill or motion that adds, changes, substitutes, or omits.
3. n. law Correction of an error in a writ or process.
4. n. An addition to and/or alteration to the Constitution.
5. n. That which is added; that which is used to increase or supplement something.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.
2. n. In public bodies; Any alternation made or proposed to be made in a bill or motion by adding, changing, substituting, or omitting.
3. n. (Law) Correction of an error in a writ or process.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. the act of amending or correcting
2. n. a statement that is added to or revises or improves a proposal or document (a bill or constitution etc.)