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The submitted version of a paper at any stage before formal publication, distinct from a preprint or the final version of record.
Merriam-Webster defines a manuscript as “a written or typewritten composition or document as distinguished from a printed copy”, and as “writing as opposed to print”; the adjective means “written by hand or typed”. From Latin manu scriptus, written by hand. First recorded as a noun in 1571.
A discrepancy worth stating rather than hiding. Merriam-Webster records the contrast with print — a document written by hand or typed rather than printed. The sense this entry defines — the submitted version of a paper at any stage before formal publication, as distinct from a preprint — is a specialised usage the dictionary does not carry. The citation above therefore sources the word and its ordinary meaning, not the specialised sense; that belongs to the literature of the field, and this entry will cite it when a signed, dated source for it has actually been read.
From the AJG lexicon archive (July 2026).
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