correction

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   treatment of a specific defect

   The correction of vision with eye glasses improves many lives.

2. 2
   noun

   a drop in stock market activity or stock prices following a period of increases

   market runups are invariably followed by a correction

3. 3
   noun

   Punishment that is intended to rehabilitate an offender.

   As the facts of the case were investigated, it became apparent that before us was the story of a man whom the entire machinery of law enforcement and correction had conspired against from the beginning to the end.

4. 4
   noun

   a station's indication that previous information was incorrect and will continue with correct information from the last correct transmitted

   I have four T-80 tanks at grid Three-niner-niner-four-eight-eight, Correction: Grid Three niner-niner-four-eight-five. How copy? Over.

5. 5
   noun

   the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake

6. 6
   noun

   the act of punishing

7. 7
   noun

   something substituted for an error

8. 8
   noun

   a rebuke for making a mistake

Etymology

From Middle English correccioun, correction, from Old French correccion (French correction), from Latin corrēctiō. Doublet of correctio.