Amendment vs. Addendum
Amendment vs. Addendum
Test how “Amendment” and “Addendum” look in your own writing.
Amendment
Term AAn alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.
In public bodies, any alteration made or proposed to be made in a bill or motion that adds, changes, substitutes, or omits.
(legal) Correction of an error in a writ or process.
An addition to and/or alteration to the Constitution.
Example: ‘The First Amendment guarantees freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition.’; ‘The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery.’;
That which is added; that which is used to increase or supplement something.
Example: ‘a soil amendment’;
An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.
In public bodies; Any alternation made or proposed to be made in a bill or motion by adding, changing, substituting, or omitting.
Correction of an error in a writ or process.
the act of amending or correcting
a statement that is added to or revises or improves a proposal or document (a bill or constitution etc.)
An amendment is a formal or official change made to a law, contract, constitution, or other legal document. It is based on the verb to amend, which means to change for better.
Addendum
Term BSomething to be added; especially text added as an appendix or supplement to a document.
A postscript.
(engineering) The height by which the tooth of a gear projects beyond (outside for external, or inside for internal) the standard pitch circle or pitch line.
A thing to be added; an appendix or addition.
textual matter that is added onto a publication; usually at the end
an item of additional material added at the end of a book or other publication.
the radial distance from the pitch circle of a cogwheel or wormwheel to the crests of the teeth or ridges.
An addendum or appendix, in general, is an addition required to be made to a document by its author subsequent to its printing or publication. It comes from the Latin gerundive addendum, plural addenda, from addere (lit. ''give toward'', compare with memorandum, agenda, corrigenda).
Example: ‘that which is to be added,’;
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