Making something more recent or current by adding new information, improvements, or changes to a newer version.
From 'update,' a compound of 'up' and 'date' created in the mid-20th century alongside computer technology. 'Update' originally meant updating computer software and systems, then expanded to mean any kind of modernization.
The word 'update' was literally created by the computer age—before computers, people just said 'brought current' or 'modernized'—so every time you update your phone or software, you're using a word that didn't exist before the 1960s!
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