noun
Meaning 1
The act of correcting.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
correction
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/kəˈɹɛkʃən/
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rhymes with -ɛkʃən
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noun
Meaning 2
A substitution for an error or mistake.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
Punishment that is intended to rehabilitate an offender.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, in-plural, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: punishment, sanction, censure, correction, discipline, penalty, punition, sentence
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
An amount or quantity of something added or subtracted so as to correct.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
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noun
Meaning 5
A decline in a stock market price after a period of rises. Often operationally defined as a market value drop of 10% or more on some specific stock market index.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 6
a station's indication that previous information was incorrect and will continue with correct information from the last correct transmitted
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: procedure word
Topics: government, military, politics, war
Examples
- 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.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 7
the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: rectification
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: improvement
Narrower terms: redress, remedy, remediation, retribution, recompense, compensation, amendment, emendation
noun
Meaning 8
treatment of a specific defect
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the correction of his vision with eye glasses
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: therapy
Narrower terms: fusion, spinal fusion
noun
Meaning 9
the act of punishing
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the offenders deserved the harsh discipline they received
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: discipline
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: punishment, penalty, penalization, penalisation
Narrower terms: spanking
noun
Meaning 10
a drop in stock market activity or stock prices following a period of increases
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- market runups are invariably followed by a correction
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: drop, dip, fall, free fall
noun
Meaning 11
something substituted for an error
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: editing, redaction
Narrower terms: erasure
noun
Meaning 12
a rebuke for making a mistake
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: chastening, chastisement
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: rebuke, reproof, reproval, reprehension, reprimand
noun
Meaning 13
a quantity that is added or subtracted in order to increase the accuracy of a scientific measure
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: fudge factor
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: indefinite quantity
History
Etymology
From Middle English correccioun, correction, from Old French correccion (French correction), from Latin corrēctiō. Doublet of correctio.
Across languages
Translations
123 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: تَصْحِيح (taṣḥīḥ) — act of correcting
- Armenian: ուղղում (uġġum) — act of correcting
- Belarusian: выпраўле́нне (vyprawljénnje) — act of correcting
- Belarusian: папра́ўка (papráwka) — act of correcting
- Bulgarian: попра́вка (poprávka) — act of correcting
- Bulgarian: коре́кция (korékcija) — act of correcting
- Catalan: correcció — act of correcting
- Chinese Mandarin: 修正 (xiūzhèng) — act of correcting
- Chinese Mandarin: 校正 (jiàozhèng) — act of correcting
- Crimean Tatar: tüzetme — act of correcting
- Danish: rettelse — act of correcting
- Dutch: verbetering — act of correcting
- Dutch: correctie — act of correcting
- Finnish: korjaus — act of correcting
- Finnish: korjaaminen — act of correcting
- French: correction — act of correcting
- Galician: corrección — act of correcting
- German: Berichtigung — act of correcting
- German: Korrektur — act of correcting
- German: Verbesserung — act of correcting
- Ancient Greek: διόρθωσις (diórthōsis) — act of correcting
- Hebrew: תיקון — act of correcting
- Hebrew: תִּקּוּן (tikún) — act of correcting
- Hindi: सुधारना (sudhārnā) — act of correcting
- Hindi: संशोधन (sañśodhan) — act of correcting
- Hungarian: javítás — act of correcting
- Hungarian: helyesbítés — act of correcting
- Hungarian: kiigazítás — act of correcting
- Hungarian: korrekció — act of correcting
- Indonesian: koreksi — act of correcting
- Irish: ceartú — act of correcting
- Italian: correzione — act of correcting
- Japanese: 訂正 — act of correcting
- Japanese: 修正 — act of correcting
- Korean: 정정 (jeongjeong) — act of correcting
- Korean: 보정 (bojeong) — act of correcting
- Korean: 수정 (sujeong) — act of correcting
- Latin: correctio — act of correcting
- Luxembourgish: Korrektur — act of correcting
- Luxembourgish: Verbesserung — act of correcting
- Luxembourgish: Korrektioun — act of correcting
- Malay: pembetulan — act of correcting
- Middle English: reformacioun — act of correcting
- Norman: corrig'gie — act of correcting
- Norwegian Bokmål: korreksjon — act of correcting
- Norwegian Bokmål: rettelse — act of correcting
- Norwegian Bokmål: retting — act of correcting
- Norwegian Nynorsk: korreksjon — act of correcting
- Occitan: correccion — act of correcting
- Persian: تصحیح (tashih) — act of correcting
- Portuguese: correção — act of correcting
- Romanian: corecție — act of correcting
- Romanian: corectare — act of correcting
- Russian: исправле́ние (ispravlénije) — act of correcting
- Russian: корре́кция (korrékcija) — act of correcting
- Russian: попра́вка (poprávka) — act of correcting
- Russian: пра́вка (právka) — act of correcting
- Russian: корректи́рование (korrektírovanije) — act of correcting
- Spanish: corrección — act of correcting
- Swahili: marekebisho — act of correcting
- Tajik: тасҳеҳ (tasheh) — act of correcting
- Turkish: düzeltme — act of correcting
- Ukrainian: ви́правка (výpravka) — act of correcting
- Ukrainian: коре́кція (korékcija) — act of correcting
- Ukrainian: попра́вка (poprávka) — act of correcting
- Unami: kwìthikeokàn — act of correcting
- Unami: kwìtëlëtëwakàn — act of correcting
- Walloon: ricoridjaedje — act of correcting
- Walloon: coridjaedje — act of correcting
- Belarusian: карэ́кцыя (karékcyja) — substitution for an error or mistake
- Belarusian: выпраўле́нне (vyprawljénnje) — substitution for an error or mistake
- Bulgarian: коре́кция (korékcija) — substitution for an error or mistake
- Catalan: correcció — substitution for an error or mistake
- Czech: oprava — substitution for an error or mistake
- Danish: rettelse — substitution for an error or mistake
- Dutch: verbetering — substitution for an error or mistake
- Dutch: correctie — substitution for an error or mistake
- Finnish: korjaus — substitution for an error or mistake
- Finnish: oikaisu — substitution for an error or mistake
- French: rectification — substitution for an error or mistake
- French: correction — substitution for an error or mistake
- German: Korrektur — substitution for an error or mistake
- Hungarian: javítás — substitution for an error or mistake
- Italian: correzione — substitution for an error or mistake
- Japanese: 訂正 — substitution for an error or mistake
- Japanese: 修正 — substitution for an error or mistake
- Korean: 정정 (jeongjeong) — substitution for an error or mistake
- Norwegian Bokmål: rettelse — substitution for an error or mistake
- Polish: poprawka — substitution for an error or mistake
- Portuguese: correção — substitution for an error or mistake
- Russian: корре́кция (korrékcija) — substitution for an error or mistake
- Russian: исправле́ние (ispravlénije) — substitution for an error or mistake
- Slovene: poprávek — substitution for an error or mistake
- Spanish: corrección — substitution for an error or mistake
- Swahili: marekebisho — substitution for an error or mistake
- Ukrainian: коре́кція (korékcija) — substitution for an error or mistake
- Ukrainian: ви́правлення (výpravlennja) — substitution for an error or mistake
- Yiddish: תּקנה (takone) — substitution for an error or mistake
- Bulgarian: наказа́ние (nakazánie) — punishment
- Esperanto: puno — punishment
- Finnish: rangaistus — punishment
- Finnish: seuraamus — punishment
- French: correction — punishment
- German: Besserungsmaßnahme — punishment
- Hungarian: fegyelmezés — punishment
- Hungarian: fenyítés — punishment
- Hungarian: büntetés — punishment
- Italian: correzione — punishment
- Japanese: 矯正 — punishment
- Romanian: corecție — punishment
- Russian: наказа́ние (nakazánije) — punishment
- Russian: исправи́тельные ме́ры (ispravítelʹnyje méry) — punishment
- Russian: взыска́ние (vzyskánije) — punishment
- Ukrainian: покара́ння (pokaránnja) — punishment
- Bulgarian: коре́кция (korékcija) — amount or quantity added or subtracted so as to correct
- Finnish: korjaus — amount or quantity added or subtracted so as to correct
- German: Korrektur — amount or quantity added or subtracted so as to correct
- Italian: correzione — amount or quantity added or subtracted so as to correct
- Swahili: marekebisho — amount or quantity added or subtracted so as to correct
- Bulgarian: корекция (korekcija) — decline in a stock market price
- Finnish: korjaus — decline in a stock market price
- Finnish: korjausliike — decline in a stock market price
- German: Korrektur — decline in a stock market price
Real reading context