Correction
noun
The action of making something wrong or faulty right or improve.
I've made some corrections in your essay.
Often appears as...
- make a correction
- assistance with correction
noun
Punishment intended to reform a person.
He was sent to a correction facility for rehabilitation.
Often appears as...
- correction facility
- correction officer
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Formal
Legal
noun
A change made to a set of mathematical or scientific data to make it correct or representative.
She applied correction to the results to account for discrepancies.
Often appears as...
- apply a correction
- correction formula
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Technical
noun
A decline in price, especially for the purpose of restoring it to a perceived sustainable level.
The Bitcoin market experienced a sharp correction.
Often appears as...
- market correction
- price correction
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Formal
Financial
noun
The action of making something wrong or faulty right or improve.
I've made some corrections in your essay.
Often appears as...
- make a correction
- assistance with correction
noun
Punishment intended to reform a person.
He was sent to a correction facility for rehabilitation.
Often appears as...
- correction facility
- correction officer
Usage tips
Formal
Legal
noun
A change made to a set of mathematical or scientific data to make it correct or representative.
She applied correction to the results to account for discrepancies.
Often appears as...
- apply a correction
- correction formula
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A decline in price, especially for the purpose of restoring it to a perceived sustainable level.
The Bitcoin market experienced a sharp correction.
Often appears as...
- market correction
- price correction
Usage tips
Formal
Financial
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Mistake Fixing
Use 'correction' when you fix errors in text, calculations, or actions.
After reviewing your feedback, I'll make the necessary corrections to the report.
Pro Tip 2/2Improvement Suggestion
'Correction' can suggest improving a work in progress, not just fixing mistakes.
Your design is good, but it needs some corrections to be great.
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adjustmentamendatoryeditemendationimprovementrectificationredressrevision
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Autofocusing reading...
the robustness of our eye-tracking solution. We'll also need to incorporate smaller and more efficient electronics and lenses. That said, even with our current prototype, we've shown that today's focus-tunable lens technology is capable of outperforming traditional forms of static correction. So it's only a matter of time.
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How does laser eye...
and the other to be better at close range vision. The difference between the two eyes is small enough that most patients can merge their vision, allowing both eyes to work together at all distances. Advances in laser technology continue to make vision correction surgery more effective and accessible.
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Haptography: Digitizing...
how do you get good at something like surfing? You practice. You practice some more and more, right? Making small corrections, maybe getting some input from a coach, learning how to improve your motions. I think we could use computers to help make that process more efficient and more fun.
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Inside OKCupid: The math...
because affection needs to be mutual. After adding a little correction for margin of error, in the case where we have a small number of questions, like we do in this example, we're good to go. Any time OkCupid matches two people, it goes through the steps we just outlined.
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Where Is Home? PIPE Pico...
And their whole life will be spent taking pieces of many different places and putting them together into a stained glass whole. Home for them is really a work in progress. It's like a project on which they're constantly adding upgrades and improvements and corrections.
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Deb Roy: The birth of a...
We're not looking at -- think of this as a dollhouse cutaway of our house. We've taken those circular fish-eye lens cameras, and we've done some optical correction, and then we can bring it into three-dimensional life. So welcome to my home. This is a moment,
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Chill Out! PIPE Dog...
except you and what you're thinking correction to the side very nice that's good I always believe that people have this assertive side of them and that's my goal to help you to bring it out what's the difference between the way you normally do it and the way
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The path to ending...
What would you say to someone who felt that? First, I just wanted to make just a slight correction, he said riots are the language of the unheard. I apologize, I apologize. But that is the point even more powerfully, yeah. Yes.
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Carl Joshua Ncube:...
so before we start correction my name is Karl Joshua Dube and I am the biggest Zimbabwean stand-up comedian in the world okay thank you thank you I need all the encouragement I can get because comedy has taken me as a mob and
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A "living drug" that...
The first patient that we treated was a retired Marine sergeant and a prison corrections officer. He had only weeks to live and had, in fact, already paid for his funeral.
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Autofocusing reading...
the robustness of our eye-tracking solution. We'll also need to incorporate smaller and more efficient electronics and lenses. That said, even with our current prototype, we've shown that today's focus-tunable lens technology is capable of outperforming traditional forms of static correction. So it's only a matter of time.
Video examples
How does laser eye...
and the other to be better at close range vision. The difference between the two eyes is small enough that most patients can merge their vision, allowing both eyes to work together at all distances. Advances in laser technology continue to make vision correction surgery more effective and accessible.
Video examples
Haptography: Digitizing...
how do you get good at something like surfing? You practice. You practice some more and more, right? Making small corrections, maybe getting some input from a coach, learning how to improve your motions. I think we could use computers to help make that process more efficient and more fun.
Video examples
Inside OKCupid: The math...
because affection needs to be mutual. After adding a little correction for margin of error, in the case where we have a small number of questions, like we do in this example, we're good to go. Any time OkCupid matches two people, it goes through the steps we just outlined.
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Where Is Home? PIPE Pico...
And their whole life will be spent taking pieces of many different places and putting them together into a stained glass whole. Home for them is really a work in progress. It's like a project on which they're constantly adding upgrades and improvements and corrections.
Video examples
Deb Roy: The birth of a...
We're not looking at -- think of this as a dollhouse cutaway of our house. We've taken those circular fish-eye lens cameras, and we've done some optical correction, and then we can bring it into three-dimensional life. So welcome to my home. This is a moment,
Video examples
Chill Out! PIPE Dog...
except you and what you're thinking correction to the side very nice that's good I always believe that people have this assertive side of them and that's my goal to help you to bring it out what's the difference between the way you normally do it and the way
Video examples
The path to ending...
What would you say to someone who felt that? First, I just wanted to make just a slight correction, he said riots are the language of the unheard. I apologize, I apologize. But that is the point even more powerfully, yeah. Yes.
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Carl Joshua Ncube:...
so before we start correction my name is Karl Joshua Dube and I am the biggest Zimbabwean stand-up comedian in the world okay thank you thank you I need all the encouragement I can get because comedy has taken me as a mob and
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A "living drug" that...
The first patient that we treated was a retired Marine sergeant and a prison corrections officer. He had only weeks to live and had, in fact, already paid for his funeral.
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Harriet Martineau
English Writer
Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.
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John Jewel
English Clergyman
The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come.
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Barry Ritholtz
American Author
The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevitable errors, you allow yourself to make corrections before it is too late.
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Henry B. Eyring
American Leader
Each of you is a unique child of God. God knows you individually. He sends messages of encouragement, correction, and direction fitted to you and to your needs.
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Zebulon Pike
American Soldier
The preparations for my new voyage prevented the possiblity of my paying that attention to the correction of my errors, that I should otherwise have done.
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Agnes de Mille
American Dancer
The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
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John Nelson Darby
English Clergyman
The Epistle is a correction of profession without life, and most valuable in this respect.
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John Wooden
American Coach
A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German Writer
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
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Cathie Wood
Corrections are good, they keep us all humble.
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Harriet Martineau
English Writer
Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.
Quote examples
John Jewel
English Clergyman
The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come.
Quote examples
Barry Ritholtz
American Author
The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevitable errors, you allow yourself to make corrections before it is too late.
Quote examples
Henry B. Eyring
American Leader
Each of you is a unique child of God. God knows you individually. He sends messages of encouragement, correction, and direction fitted to you and to your needs.
Quote examples
Zebulon Pike
American Soldier
The preparations for my new voyage prevented the possiblity of my paying that attention to the correction of my errors, that I should otherwise have done.
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Agnes de Mille
American Dancer
The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
Quote examples
John Nelson Darby
English Clergyman
The Epistle is a correction of profession without life, and most valuable in this respect.
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John Wooden
American Coach
A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German Writer
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
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Cathie Wood
Corrections are good, they keep us all humble.
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