Correction
[kə'rekʃ(ə)n] or [kə'rɛkʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right.
(noun.) treatment of a specific defect; 'the correction of his vision with eye glasses'.
(noun.) a drop in stock market activity or stock prices following a period of increases; 'market runups are invariably followed by a correction'.
(noun.) something substituted for an error.
(noun.) a rebuke for making a mistake.
(noun.) a quantity that is added or subtracted in order to increase the accuracy of a scientific measure.
Inputed by Cecile--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of correcting, or making that right which was wrong; change for the better; amendment; rectification, as of an erroneous statement.
(n.) The act of reproving or punishing, or that which is intended to rectify or to cure faults; punishment; discipline; chastisement.
(n.) That which is substituted in the place of what is wrong; an emendation; as, the corrections on a proof sheet should be set in the margin.
(n.) Abatement of noxious qualities; the counteraction of what is inconvenient or hurtful in its effects; as, the correction of acidity in the stomach.
(n.) An allowance made for inaccuracy in an instrument; as, chronometer correction; compass correction.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Amendment, improvement, redress.[2]. Chastisement, punishment, discipline, castigation.[3]. Change (in quality, by something opposite), modification.
Inputed by Dennis
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:amendment, discipline, emendation, chastisement, punishment
ANT:Deterioration, debasement, retrogradation, reward, recompense
Checked by Bernadette
Examples
- I wish to express my gratitude also to Miss Florence Bonnet for aid in the correction of the manuscript. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- They will use friendly correction, but will not enslave or destroy their opponents; they will be correctors, not enemies? Plato. The Republic.
- For, as the song says--subject to your correction, sir-- “When the heart of a man is depressed with cares, The mist is dispelled if Venus appears. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- But all statistical devices are open to abuse and require constant correction. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The notion of any correction beyond what we have instruments and art to make, is a mere fiction of the mind, and useless as well as incomprehensible. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The correction for the aberration of light is said by Muller not to be perfect even in that most perfect organ, the human eye. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- These things, he added, looking at Lydgate, would be to me such relaxation as tow-picking is to prisoners in a house of correction. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Feeling the inutility of answering these charges, I mutely continued the correction of a pile of English exercises. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- To lead a life of self-correction is not the way to forget. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Matter must be considered as created by God in accordance with law and as ever obedient to law, not as an independent or hostile fo rce needing occasional correction. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- It is designed to ascertain variations in corneal curvature for the correction of corneal astigmatism. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- On those points he was ever open to correction. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Provision is made for the correction of errors, and operation is in two directions, forward for addition and multiplication, and backward for subtraction and division. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Edison had a few minor corrections to make, probably not more than a dozen all told. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- HE COPIED OUT PAINSTAKINGLY THE ENTIRE PAPER IN LONG HAND, embodying the corrections as he went along, and presented the result of his work the following morning. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I return the papers with some corrections. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
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