Corrective meaning

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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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Something corrective; remedy.
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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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Origin of corrective

  • From French correctif
    From Wiktionary

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.

  • 34, 11 93 b 1-15), and it omits altogether the division into distributive and corrective justice.

  • Or he might make repetitions, as in the same book, where he twice applies the principle, that so far as the agent does the patient suffers, first to the corrective justice of the law court (Eth.

  • 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.

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