Improvision

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˌɪm.pɹəˈvɪʒ.É™n/

From - + provision.

Full definition of improvision

Noun

1. (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.

From improvise + -ion.

Noun

1. The act of improvising, or something improvised; improvisation
• 1948, October 1948, Alexander Maxwell, Gauges—the Guide to Perfection, A similar improvision, a modification of the device used to measure the planar ways (photo 8), makes several measurements at once.
• 1987, John Davis, Libyan Politics: Tribe and Revolution: An Account of the Zuwaya and their Government Chapter The Libyan Contribution, 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 and Oliver Ortolanai, Peter Brook and the Mahabharata: Critical Perspectives Chapter Energy and the Ensemble: Actors' Perspectives, 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, Tonal centring: Providing a tonal centre, scale, or harmonic ground as a base for the client's improvision