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correction
[ kuh-rek-shuhn ]
noun
- something that is substituted or proposed for what is wrong or inaccurate; emendation.
- the act of correcting.
- punishment intended to reform, improve, or rehabilitate; chastisement; reproof.
- Usually corrections. the various methods, as incarceration, parole, and probation, by which society deals with convicted offenders.
- a quantity applied or other adjustment made in order to increase accuracy, as in the use of an instrument or the solution of a problem:
A five degree correction will put the ship on course.
- a reversal of the trend of stock prices, especially temporarily, as after a sharp advance or decline in the previous trading sessions.
correction
/ kəˈrɛkʃən /
noun
- the act or process of correcting
- something offered or substituted for an error; an improvement
- the act or process of punishing; reproof
- a number or quantity added to or subtracted from a scientific or mathematical calculation or observation to increase its accuracy
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Other Words From
- noncor·rection noun
- precor·rection noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of correction1
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Example Sentences
What 15 months in a federal correction institution will be like, according to a man who counsels to-be inmates.
Correction: Officer Jose Rodriguez was misidentified in several places in an earlier version of this story.
Correction: An earlier version of this article said John Lewis attended the event, not Elijah Cummings.
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story stated that ISIS has been known to use the application FireChat.
Correction: The original article stated that Starboard Strategic Inc. had undertaken the Internet media buy for the NRA.
This mania for correction shows itself too in relation to the authorities themselves.
He worketh under correction, and seeketh to rest: let his hands be idle, and he seeketh liberty.
These evidences of an impulse to look on correction as a quite proper thing are corroborated by stories of self-punishment.
I am of opinion too, that the Indecency of the next Verse, you spill upon me, would admit of an equal Correction.
An imperfect vow, on account of its imperfection, would require correction.
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