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CORRECTION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("correction" is a kind of...):
improvement (the act of improving something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "correction"):
redress; remediation; remedy (act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil)
retribution (the act of correcting for your wrongdoing)
compensation; recompense (the act of compensating for service or loss or injury)
amendment (the act of amending or correcting)
emendation (a correction by emending; a correction resulting from critical editing)
Derivation:
correct (make right or correct)
correctional (concerned with or providing correction)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Treatment of a specific defect
Example:
the correction of his vision with eye glasses
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("correction" is a kind of...):
therapy ((medicine) the act of caring for someone (as by medication or remedial training etc.))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "correction"):
fusion; spinal fusion (correction of an unstable part of the spine by joining two or more vertebrae; usually done surgically but sometimes done by traction or immobilization)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The act of disciplining
Example:
the offenders deserved the harsh discipline they received
Synonyms:
correction; discipline
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("correction" is a kind of...):
penalisation; penalization; penalty; punishment (the act of punishing)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "correction"):
spanking (the act of slapping on the buttocks)
Derivation:
correct (punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience)
correctional (concerned with or providing correction)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A drop in stock market activity or stock prices following a period of increases
Example:
market runups are invariably followed by a correction
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("correction" is a kind of...):
dip; drop; fall; free fall (a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Something substituted for an error
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("correction" is a kind of...):
editing; redaction (putting something (as a literary work or a legislative bill) into acceptable form)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "correction"):
erasure (a correction made by erasing)
Sense 6
Meaning:
A rebuke for making a mistake
Synonyms:
chastening; chastisement; correction
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("correction" is a kind of...):
rebuke; reprehension; reprimand; reproof; reproval (an act or expression of criticism and censure)
Sense 7
Meaning:
A quantity that is added or subtracted in order to increase the accuracy of a scientific measure
Synonyms:
correction; fudge factor
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("correction" is a kind of...):
indefinite quantity (an estimated quantity)
Context examples:
Although a small correction, it was enough that — projected to one week later when the collision would otherwise have occurred — MAVEN would miss the lumpy, crater-filled moon by about 2.5 minutes.
(NASA Orbiter Steers Clear of Mars Moon Phobos, NASA)
The act of making necessary corrections or modifications.
(Adjustment, NCI Thesaurus)
The very years she spoke of, were realities now, for my correction; and would have been, one day, a little later perhaps, though we had parted in our earliest folly.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
For myself, beyond a word or so of suggestion or correction now and again, I took no part.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
He acknowledged that, but he had a feeling that he was not sharing his work with her for the purpose of schoolroom correction.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Now, the universe will make a correction.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
The linear correction formula uses population-based data obtained and validated using a large cohort of subjects.
(JTcLC - Linear Correction Formula, NCI Thesaurus)
The time interval between the start of the Q wave and the end of the T wave in the cardiac cycle as corrected with a non-specified correction formula.
(Corrected QT Interval, NCI Thesaurus)
This gene is involved in nucleotide excision repair and is involved in the correction of defective nucleotide excision repair in xeroderma pigmentosum cells of complementation group F.
(ERCC4 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
A unit used in the calculation of a rate of the substance removal from the body (such as creatinine clearance) for the measurement of renal excretory function, with the applied correction factor for body size.
(Milliliter per Minute per 1.73 m2 of Body Surface Area, NCI Thesaurus)
