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correction
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
Related Forms:
- correctional adjective
See correction in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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