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correction
Word forms: plural corrections
1.countable noun [usually plural] B1
Corrections are marks or comments made on a piece of work, especially school work, which indicate where there are mistakes and what are the right answers.
2.uncountable noun [oft NOUN noun]
3. See also correct
More Synonyms of correction
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correction in British English
noun
1.
the act or process of correcting
2.
something offered or substituted for an error; an improvement
3.
the act or process of punishing; reproof
4.
a number or quantity added to or subtracted from a scientific or mathematical calculation or observation to increase its accuracy
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correction in American English
noun
1.
a correcting or being corrected
2.
a change that corrects a mistake; change from wrong to right, or from abnormal to normal; emendation; rectification
3.
the amount of change made in correcting
4.
a.
punishment or scolding to correct faults
b. [usually pl.]
punishment and rehabilitation within a prison system
5. Finance
a brief, temporary reversal in the trend of prices in a financial market, esp. a short-term decline following, or in the midst of, a long-term rise in prices
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Word origin
ME correccion < OFr correction < L correctio
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correction in American English
(kəˈrekʃən)
noun
1.
something that is substituted or proposed for what is wrong or inaccurate; emendation
2.
the act of correcting
3.
punishment intended to reform, improve, or rehabilitate; chastisement; reproof
4.(usually corrections)
the various methods, as incarceration, parole, and probation, by which society deals with convicted offenders
5.
a quantity applied or other adjustment made in order to increase accuracy, as in the use of an instrument or the solution of a problem
A five degree correction will put the ship on course
6.
a reversal of the trend of stock prices, esp. temporarily, as after a sharp advance or decline in the previous trading sessions
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Word origin
[1300–50; ME correccio(u)n (‹ AF) ‹ L corrēctiōn- (s. of corrēctiō) a setting straight. See correct, -ion]
Examples of 'correction' in a sentence
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The necessary corrections could not be clearer. Times, Sunday Times (2006) The Sun (2008) Andrews, Elizabeth Muscle Management (1991) Christianity Today (2000) Times, Sunday Times (2013) Times, Sunday Times (2009) Times, Sunday Times (2015) Times, Sunday Times (2014) The Times Literary Supplement (2011) Royal Society Biography and Memoirs (2022)
COBUILD Collocations
correction
colour correction
corrections department
corrections officials
course correction
factual correction
immediate correction
issue a correction
make a correction
market correction
mid-course correction
minor correction
necessary correction
need correction
sharp correction
technical correction
