self-correcting

or self-cor·rec·tive

[ self-kuh-rek-ting, self- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

automatically adjusting to or correcting mistakes, malfunctions, etc.:
a self-correcting mechanism.

self-correcting

First recorded in 1935–40

The story of Gliese 581g highlights how hard exoplanet-hunting is, and how science at its best is self-correcting.

At least since the last world war, most of the developed world has lived with the idea that popular suffrage is self-correcting.

But this self-correcting motive was presently displaced by a motive of a different sort.

This is a system of six compound-bars self-correcting for temperature.

"Miss Cora Dares," Pauline continued, with a self-correcting precision.

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