correction Definition
cor·rec·tion (kə rek′s̸hən)
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
- punishment or scolding to correct faults
- 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
Etymology: ME correccion < OFr correction < L correctio
correction Related Forms
correction Synonyms
correction
n.
The act of correcting
revision, revising, improvement, amendment, rectification, remodeling, editing, righting, redress, indemnification, reparation, amelioration, mending, fixing, amending, emendation, changing, reconstruction, reorganization; see also repairing, revision.The result of correcting
improvement, revision, emendation, corrigenda; see change 2, improvement 2, repair.
correction Finance Definition
However, correction often is used in a more generic sense to refer to a market that has fallen, regardless of the principles of technical analysis.
correction Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- deformity: Proximal metatarsal osteotomy will give a good correction of the deformity combined with a distal soft tissue correction.
- error: Recommendation 2 is to allow correction of errors that do not require further research.
- irregularity: Result: Date of partial surrenders determined New date for filing of TM8 set, as a correction of an irregularity.
Preposition: for
vignetting: A correction for the differential vignetting was not applied to the HR value because this was generally small compared to the statistical error.
Adjective modifier
- radiative: The decays of tau's including radiative corrections are simulated by the dedicated package TAUOLA.
- refractive: With refractive correction nearly 91 % of the patients had vision equal to or better than 6/18.
- minor: The Assembly approved the minutes subject to minor corrections.
- typographical: Proofs are supplied for checking and making essential typographical corrections, not for general revision or alteration.
- spherical: The spherical aberration correction is in this region too.
- radiometric: Radiometric corrections may be necessary due to variations in scene illumination and viewing geometry, atmospheric conditions, and sensor noise and response.
Modifies a noun
- capacitor: Here are screenshots of such a power factor correction capacitors.
- collar: Therefore, the need for a correction collar on a water immersion lens arises at the somewhat higher NA of around 0.9.
- factor: In such cases, the approach to adopt is to calculate a long term mean correction factor using data from analyzes of spiked samples.
- fluid: All the untidy or tatty CVs, the ones with poor hand writing, crossings out or correction fluid will probably be thrown out.
Noun used with modifier
- gamma: Even adding gamma correction to the foreground image isn't too much trouble.
- keystone: To apply keystone correction to get a rectangular image use the " menu " button.
- ionospheric: Dual frequency operation enables the user to implement a measured ionospheric correction.
- error: Each modem which has error correction will have a specific AT command to set up hardware flow control.
- red-eye: Photo effects for black and white, sepia and tinted, color sliders for RGB balance red-eye correction tool for automatic and user-guided operation.
- diopter: In addition, there is no diopter correction to help focus the image for those of us with less than perfect vision.
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