- 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
- [usually pl.] punishment and rehabilitation within a prison system
- Finance a sudden, usually short-term decline, as in the stock market, following a rapid or dramatic rise in prices
Origin of correction
Middle English correccion from Old French correction from Classical Latin correctio