correction
English
/kəˈɹɛkʃən/
noun
Definitions
- The act of correcting.
- A substitution for an error or mistake.
- (chiefly in the plural) 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.
- (procedure_procedure word, military) a station's indication that previous information was incorrect and will continue with correct information from the last correct transmitted
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French correccion derived from Latin corrēctiō.
Origin
Latin
corrēctiō
Gloss
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Cognates and derived terms
- autocorrection English
- correctio English
- correction line English
- correctional English
- correctionally English
- correctioner English
- geocorrection English
- hypercorrection English
- immunocorrection English
- incorrection English
- line English
- miscorrection English
- overcorrection English
- precorrection English
- recorrection English
- undercorrection English
- corrēctiō Latin
- correccion Old French
- koreksyonal Tagalog