Dictionary Definition
correction
Noun
1 the act of offering an improvement to replace a
mistake; setting right [syn: rectification]
2 a quantity that is added or subtracted in order
to increase the accuracy of a scientific measure [syn: fudge
factor]
3 something substituted for an error
4 a rebuke for making a mistake [syn: chastening, chastisement]
5 a drop in stock market activity or stock prices
following a period of increases; "market runups are invariably
followed by a correction"
6 the act of punishing; "the offenders deserved
the harsh discipline they received" [syn: discipline]
7 treatment of a specific defect; "the correction
of his vision with eye glasses"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /kəˈɹɛkʃən/, /k@"rEkS@n/
- Hyphenation: cor·rec·tion
Noun
- The act of correcting.
- A substitution for an error or mistake.
- Punishment that is intended to rehabilitate an offender.
- An amount or quantity of something added or subtracted so as to correct.
- A decline in a stock market price after a large rise.
Related terms
Translations
act of correcting
- Dutch: verbetering , correctie
- French: correction
- German: Korrektur , Berichtigung
- Hebrew: תיקון (tiqun)
substitution for an error or mistake
- Czech: oprava
- Dutch: verbetering , correctie
- German: Korrektur
punishment
- German: Besserungsmaßnahme
amount or quantity added or subtracted so as to
correct
- German: Korrektur
decline in a stock market price
- German: Korrektur
Noun
fr-noun fExtensive Definition
Correction, via the identical French from the
Latin corrigĕre 'to make straight (again)', is an action to
rectify, to make right a wrong. It may have the following
meanings:
- To set straight an error, clarify a misunderstanding, undo resulting damage; e.g. a correction (newspaper) in a newspaper is the posting of the notice of a mistake that appeared in a past issue of a newspaper
- To rectify an illogical state, e.g. a market anomaly as in correction (stock market).
- As a euphemism for punishment, of various kinds, mainly physical; in institutional terminology specifically used for imprisonment, e.g. correctional facility (prison) or corrections.
- the various duties of a corrector, a political/administrative office in classical Antiquity and still an ecclesiastical one in the Catholic Church.
correction in German: Korrektur
correction in French: Correction
correction in Portuguese: Corretor
(desambiguação)
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
admonishment, admonition, amendment, amends, appraisal, appraisement, approximation, assessment, assize, assizement, calculation, castigation, chastening, chastisement, chiding, compensation, computation, condign
punishment, corrigendum, deserts, determination,
disciplinary measures, discipline, editing, emendation, estimate, estimation, evaluation, ferule, fixing, gauging, improvement, infliction, instrumentation,
judgment, judicial
punishment, lecture,
lesson, making right,
measure, measurement, measuring, mending, mensuration, metric system,
nemesis, objurgation, overhaul, overhauling, pains, pains and punishments,
pay, payment, penal retribution,
penalty, penology, punishment, punition, quantification, quantization, rating, rebuke, recension, recompense, rectification, redaction, redress, remedy, repair, repairing, reparation, reprehension, reprimand, reproach, reprobation, reproof, reproval, rescript, rescription, retribution, retributive
justice, revampment,
revisal, revise, revised edition, revision, rewrite, rewriting, rod, satisfaction, scolding, scourge, sermon, spanking, survey, surveying, telemetering, telemetry, triangulation, troubleshooting,
upbraiding, valuation, well-deserved
punishment, what-for