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Incarnations

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Different physical or specific forms in which a person, idea, or thing exists or has previously existed.

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The software has gone through several incarnations since it was first released.

In Hindu belief, Krishna is regarded as one of the incarnations of Vishnu.

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From Latin 'incarnare', 'to make flesh', originally a religious term for a deity taking bodily form.

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