correction

The definition of a correction is a change that fixes a mistake, or a punishment to correct a fault.

(noun)

See correction in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

a correcting or being corrected
a change that corrects a mistake; change from wrong to right, or from abnormal to normal; emendation; rectification
the amount of change made in correcting
1. punishment or scolding to correct faults
2. punishment and rehabilitation within a prison system
Finance a brief, temporary reversal in the trend of prices in a financial market, esp. a short-term decline following, or in the midst of, a long-term rise in prices

Origin: ME correccion < OFr correction < L correctio

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See correction in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

The act or process of correcting.
Something offered or substituted for a mistake or fault: made corrections in the report.
a. Punishment intended to rehabilitate or improve.
b. corrections The treatment of offenders through a system of penal incarceration, rehabilitation, probation, and parole, or the administrative system by which these are effectuated.
An amount or quantity added or subtracted in order to correct.
A decline in stock-market activity or prices following a period of increases.

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