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noun
1.
something that is substituted or proposed for what is wrong or inaccurate; emendation.
2.
the act of correcting.
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punishment intended to reform, improve, or rehabilitate; chastisement; reproof.
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Usually, corrections. the various methods, as incarceration, parole, and probation, by which society deals with convicted offenders.
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EXPANDa 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.
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COLLAPSEa reversal of the trend of stock prices, especially temporarily, as after a sharp advance or decline in the previous trading sessions.
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So is quincunx. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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correction
mid-14c., "action of correcting," from Fr. correction, from L. correctionem, noun of action from pp. stem of corrigere (see correct). Meaning "chastizement" is from late 14c. Meaning "an instance of correction" is from 1520s. House of correction was in a royal statute from 1575.
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