Corrective definition

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correctives
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Something corrective; remedy.
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Tending or intended to correct.

Corrective lenses.

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An agent that corrects.
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Tending or meant to correct or improve; remedial.
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Of or pertaining to correction; serving to correct.

As the currents were changing rapidly, the captain had to make many corrective course changes.

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Qualifying; limiting.
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Something that corrects or counteracts something, especially an injury or disability.

Alkalies are correctives of acids.

Penalties are correctives of immoral conduct.

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Noun

Singular:
corrective
Plural:
correctives

Origin of corrective

  • From French correctif

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Corrective Sentence Examples

  • The city has a highly developed system of charitable and corrective institutions.

  • He made mistakes, but he was willing to take ownership and responsible enough to take corrective action.

  • Maimonides, in his More Nevochim, states that the use of intense in the worship of the Jews originated as a corrective of the disagreeable odours arising from the slaughter and burning of the animals offered in sacrifice.

  • It is not about apathy and then corrective action.

  • We have now reduced the law for the bands to a form which we have found applicable to a series of lines, but with this important difference that while a in the case of line spectra is a small corrective term, it now forms the constant on which an essential factor in the appearance of the band depends.

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