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Definition of Correction

1. Noun. The act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right.

2. Noun. A quantity that is added or subtracted in order to increase the accuracy of a scientific measure.

3. Noun. Something substituted for an error.

4. Noun. A rebuke for making a mistake.

5. Noun. A drop in stock market activity or stock prices following a period of increases. "Market runups are invariably followed by a correction"

6. Noun. The act of punishing. "The offenders deserved the harsh discipline they received"

7. Noun. Treatment of a specific defect. "The correction of his vision with eye glasses"

Definition of Correction

1. n. The act of correcting, or making that right which was wrong; change for the better; amendment; rectification, as of an erroneous statement.

Definition of Correction

1. Noun. The act of correcting. ¹

2. Noun. A substitution for an error or mistake. ¹

3. Noun. Punishment that is intended to rehabilitate an offender. ¹

4. Noun. An amount or quantity of something added or subtracted so as to correct. ¹

5. Noun. A decline in a stock market price after a large rise. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Correction

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Correction

1. A setting right, as the provision of specific lenses for the improvement of vision or an arbitrary adjustment made in values or devices in performance of experimental procedures. Origin: L. Correctio = straightening out, amendment This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Correction

corrected corrected and republished article corrected dextrocardia corrected transposition of the great vessels correcter correctest correcteth correctified correctifies correctify

correctifying correcting correcting fluid correcting fluids correctio correction (current term) correction collar correction factor correction fluid correction fluids

correction officer correctional correctional facilities correctional facility correctional institution correctional institutions correctional officer correctional rehabilitation correctioner correctioners

Literary usage of Correction

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1878)
"The vast simplification of the déviations of the compass effected by a perfect correction of this part of the whole error has not ..."

2. The Principles and Practice of Surveying by Charles Blaney Breed, George Leonard Hosmer (1908)
"about 3 per cent the following more accurate formula for the correction is used, — I — — + r-rjl In case of very steep grades ..."

3. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1843)
"With this approximate inclination we compute 8 at E. by S. = + 45° 04'; and with this correction, and the same observations as before, ..."

4. Index of Economic Material in Documents of the States of the United States by Adelaide Rosalia Hasse (1908)
"Rept. on Ipswich House of correction and Receptacle for the Insane. 2 pp. ... Rept. of special committee on house of correction at Cambridge. 6 pp. ..."

5. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"(8) Husband's right of correction.—The husband also (by the old law) might give his wife moderate correction." For, as he is to answer for her misbehavior, ..."

6. Biennial Report by Vermont Director of State Institutions, Vermont, Kansas, Director of State Institutions (1918)
"Report of Vermont State Prison and House of correction ... Repairs began May 1st, 1921, on the former House of correction for the housing of the inmates. ..."

7. Field Engineering: A Handbook of the Theory and Practice of Railway by William Henry Searles, Howard Chapin Ives (1919)
"This correction for any given ... What correction must be added to the ... 50.093 sin 7 Ans. correction = .093. Or, by Table IV, and by above table, ..."

8. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1857)
"... Experiments undertaken to determine the correction for the Temperature of the Pendulum. By GB AIRY, Esq., Astronomer Royal. Received February 13, 1856. ..."

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