Dictionary Entry
correction
correction is a 10-letter English word with 12 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of correcting, or making that right which was wrong; change for the better; amendment; rectification, as of an erroneous statement. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 17 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The act of correcting, or making that right which was wrong; change for the better; amendment; rectification, as of an erroneous statement.
- 2noun
The act of reproving or punishing, or that which is intended to rectify or to cure faults; punishment; discipline; chastisement.
- 3noun
That which is substituted in the place of what is wrong; an emendation; as, the corrections on a proof sheet should be set in the margin.
- 4noun
Abatement of noxious qualities; the counteraction of what is inconvenient or hurtful in its effects; as, the correction of acidity in the stomach.
- 5noun
An allowance made for inaccuracy in an instrument; as, chronometer correction; compass correction.
- 6noun
the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right
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- 7noun
treatment of a specific defect
"the correction of his vision with eye glasses"
- 8noun
the act of punishing
"the offenders deserved the harsh discipline they received"
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- 9noun
a drop in stock market activity or stock prices following a period of increases
"market runups are invariably followed by a correction"
- 10noun
something substituted for an error
- 11noun
a rebuke for making a mistake
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- 12noun
a quantity that is added or subtracted in order to increase the accuracy of a scientific measure
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