# correction

Pronunciation: say "kuh-REK-shuhn" /kəˈɹɛkʃən/

## Noun

1. The act of putting right something that is wrong or inaccurate.
   - Simple: The act of fixing something that is wrong.
   - _The judge ordered the correction of the official record._
   - _Quick correction of the data prevented a costly mistake._
2. A change made to replace an error or mistake with what is correct.
   - Simple: A change that takes the place of a mistake and makes it right.
   - _The printed edition included a correction to the misquoted figure._
   - _He sent the publisher a correction for the wrong date._
3. Punishment intended to reform an offender rather than simply to penalize.
   - Simple: Punishment meant to help an offender change rather than just to punish them.
   - _The reform movement favored correction over lengthy imprisonment._
   - _She devoted her career to correction within the juvenile system._
4. A decline in stock market prices following a period of rises, often defined as a fall of ten percent or more on a given index.
   - Simple: A drop in stock prices after they have been going up for a while.
   - _Analysts warned that a correction was overdue after the long rally._
   - _Stock prices fell into a correction before recovering by year's end._
5. An amount or quantity added or subtracted in order to make something accurate.
   - Simple: An amount added or taken away to make a number or measurement correct.
   - _Engineers added a correction to account for the instrument's drift._
   - _The final figure included a correction for air pressure._
6. A radio operator's signal that previously transmitted information was wrong, followed by the corrected version from the last correctly transmitted word onward.
   - Simple: A radio signal telling listeners the last message was wrong and the right one follows.
   - _The signaler broke in with a correction before reading back the amended coordinates._
   - _Voice procedure requires a clear correction whenever a group is misspoken._

## Origin

From Middle English correccioun, from Old French correccion (modern French correction), from Latin corrēctiō. It is a doublet of correctio.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/correction (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).