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Correction

noun

The act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right. Synonym: rectification.

A quantity that is added or subtracted in order to increase the accuracy of a scientific measure. Synonym: fudge factor.

Something substituted for an error.

A rebuke for making a mistake. Synonyms: chastening, chastisement.

A drop in stock market activity or stock prices following a period of increases.

The act of punishing. Synonym: discipline.

Treatment of a specific defect.

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"Correction" Quotes from Famous Books

... customary earlier breakout to correct its course and measure the distance remaining to be run. In overdrive there was not as yet a way to know accurately one's actual speed, and at astronomical distances small errors piled up. Correction of line was important, too, because a course that was even a second off arc could mount up to hundreds of thousands of miles. But even with that usual previous breakout, the Mekinese cruiser did not turn up conveniently close to its ...

— Talents, Incorporated • William Fitzgerald Jenkins

... stood on the north side of the church not far from the North Transept, was converted into a House of Correction for half ...

— Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury - with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire • H. J. L. J. Masse

... interpretation; and for in my flesh, they tell us themselves in the margin that we may read (and, in fact, we ought to read, and must read) "out of," or "without" my flesh. It is but to write out the verses omitting the conjectural additions, and making that one small, but vital correction, to see how frail a support is there for so large a conclusion; "I know that my Redeemer liveth, and shall stand at the latter... upon the earth; and after my skin... destroy this...; yet without my flesh I shall see God." ...

— Froude's Essays in Literature and History - With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc • James Froude

... was repealed by 13 Anne c. 26, which, however, includes within its new scope 'common players of Interludes,' and names no exceptions. The whipping continues, but there is an alternative in the House of Correction: 'to be stript naked from the middle, and be openly whipped until his or her body be bloody, or may be sent to the House of Correction.' 17 Geo. II. c. 5 repeals a previous statute of the same king which had repealed the statute of Anne, and ...

— Obiter Dicta • Augustine Birrell

... neighborhood of our meaning instead of expressing it briefly and clearly. We throw a handful of words at an idea when one word would suffice; we try to bring the idea down with a shotgun instead of a rifle. Of course one means of correction is that we should acquire accuracy, a quality already discussed. Another is that we should ...

— The Century Vocabulary Builder • Creever & Bachelor

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