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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From im- + provision.
Noun
improvision (plural improvisions)
- (obsolete) the lack of provision, a failure to provide something
1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.2: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.
Etymology 2
From improvise + -ion.
Noun
improvision (plural improvisions)
- the act of improvising, or something improvised; improvisation
1948 October, Alexander Maxwell, “Gauges—the Guide to Perfection”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 90, number 4, Hearst Magazines, →ISSN, page 250:A similar improvision, a modification of the device used to measure the planar ways (photo 8), makes several measurements at once.
1987, John Davis, “The Libyan Contribution”, in Libyan Politics: Tribe and Revolution: An Account of the Zuwaya and their Government, University of California Press, published 1988, →ISBN, page 248:It was a revolution grounded in exoterics, which may account in some part for the general air of naivety and improvision which surrounds it.
1991, Martine Millon, Oliver Ortolanai, quoting Yoshi Oida, “Energy and the Ensemble: Actors' Perspectives”, in David Williams, editor, Peter Brook and the Mahabharata: Critical Perspectives, Part II Practitioners' accounts, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 108:There are two general conceptions of improvision. The first, commonly applied is of a rather romantic woolly kind. It suggests that anything can happen in improvisation.
2005, Daniel Gilbert Perret, Roots of Musicality: Music Therapy and Personal Development, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, Appendix 7: Improvisation Techniques in Music Therapy, page 177:Tonal centring: Providing a tonal centre, scale, or harmonic ground as a base for the client's improvision