Definitions for correction

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correction cor·rec·tion

Spelling: [kuh-rek-shuh n]

IPA: /kəˈrɛk ʃən/

Correction is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 359 anagrams from letters in correction (cceinoorrt).

Definitions for correction

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:
6. a reversal of the trend of stock prices, especially temporarily, as after a sharp advance or decline in the previous trading sessions.

Origin of correction

1300-50; Middle English correccio(u)n (Anglo-French) Latin corrēctiōn- (stem of corrēctiō) a setting straight. See correct, -ion

Examples for correction

Mackenzie accepted the correction with a nod of understanding, sparing his words.

correction: An earlier version of this article said John Lewis attended the event, not Elijah Cummings.

He ordered his secretary to reimburse the fees and will issue a correction to his political funds reports.

correction: The original article stated that Starboard Strategic Inc. had undertaken the Internet media buy for the NRA.

correction: An earlier version of this story stated that ISIS has been known to use the application FireChat.

It is by the Priests that silence is enjoined, and with the power of correction the Priests are then invested.

Tompkins turned and looked at me, but never noticed my correction.

The former were frequently in use for the correction of drunkards.

Were the thongs for the correction of persons lacking understanding?

correction: Officer Jose Rodriguez was misidentified in several places in an earlier version of this story.