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To make a change to data. The terms edit and "update" are used synonymously. See edit menu and update.

edit [′ed·ət]

(computer science)

To modify the form or format of an output or input by inserting or deleting characters such as page numbers or decimal points.

A computer instruction directing that this step be performed.

(application)

edit - Use of some kind of editor program to modify a document. Also used to refer to the modification itself, e.g. "my last edit only made things worse".

To edit something usually implies that the changes will persist for some time, usually by saving the edited document to a file, though one might open an editor, create a new document in memory, print it and exit without saving it to disk.

Editing is normally done by a human but see, e.g., sed.

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