CORRECTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does correction mean? 

• CORRECTION (noun)
  The noun CORRECTION has 7 senses:

1. the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right

2. a quantity that is added or subtracted in order to increase the accuracy of a scientific measure

3. something substituted for an error

4. a rebuke for making a mistake

5. a drop in stock market activity or stock prices following a period of increases

6. the act of disciplining

7. treatment of a specific defect

  Familiarity information: CORRECTION used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORRECTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

correction; rectification

Hypernyms ("correction" is a kind of...):

improvement (the act of improving something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "correction"):

redress; remediation; remedy (act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil)

retribution (the act of correcting for your wrongdoing)

compensation; recompense (the act of compensating for service or loss or injury)

amendment (the act of amending or correcting)

emendation (a correction by emending; a correction resulting from critical editing)

Derivation:

correct (make right or correct)

correctional (concerned with or providing correction)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A quantity that is added or subtracted in order to increase the accuracy of a scientific measure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

correction; fudge factor

Hypernyms ("correction" is a kind of...):

indefinite quantity (an estimated quantity)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Something substituted for an error

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("correction" is a kind of...):

editing; redaction (putting something (as a literary work or a legislative bill) into acceptable form)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "correction"):

erasure (a correction made by erasing)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A rebuke for making a mistake

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

chastening; chastisement; correction

Hypernyms ("correction" is a kind of...):

rebuke; reprehension; reprimand; reproof; reproval (an act or expression of criticism and censure)

Sense 5

Meaning:

A drop in stock market activity or stock prices following a period of increases

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

market runups are invariably followed by a correction

Hypernyms ("correction" is a kind of...):

dip; drop; fall; free fall (a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity)

Sense 6

Meaning:

The act of disciplining

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

correction; discipline

Context example:

the offenders deserved the harsh discipline they received

Hypernyms ("correction" is a kind of...):

penalisation; penalization; penalty; punishment (the act of punishing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "correction"):

spanking (the act of slapping on the buttocks)

Derivation:

correct (punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience)

correctional (concerned with or providing correction)

Sense 7

Meaning:

Treatment of a specific defect

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

the correction of his vision with eye glasses

Hypernyms ("correction" is a kind of...):

therapy ((medicine) the act of caring for someone (as by medication or remedial training etc.))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "correction"):

fusion; spinal fusion (correction of an unstable part of the spine by joining two or more vertebrae; usually done surgically but sometimes done by traction or immobilization)

 Context examples 

Both participate in repair of a dinucleotide insertion-deletion heterology but only MutS alpha restores base-base mismatch repair and shoulders primary responsibility for mismatch correction during replication.

(DNA Mismatch Repair Protein MSH3, NCI Thesaurus)

A statistical method used for multiple testing corrections to control the expected proportion of false positives (Type I error) among rejected tests or hypotheses.

(False Discovery Rate, NCI Thesaurus)

A change in a document made by correction, adding, substituting or omitting a certain part.

(Amendment, NCI Thesaurus)

"Don't say 'larks!'" implored Amy, as a return snub for the 'samphire' correction.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The stringency of this correction falls somewhere between no correction and the Standard Bonferroni.

(Adjusted Bonferroni Correction, NCI Thesaurus)

A statistical method used for multiple testing corrections to control the expected proportion of false positives (Type I eror) among rejected tests or hypotheses.

(Family-Wise Error Rate, NCI Thesaurus)

A procedure used for correction of p-value due to multiple testing.

(Multiple Comparison Adjustment, NCI Thesaurus)

The branch of dentistry dealing with the prevention or correction of irregularities of the teeth.

(Orthodontics, NCI Thesaurus)

A measurement of the median duration (time) of the QTc interval, obtained from a set of measurements of the QT interval and corrected using the Fridericia's correction formula.

(Median QTcF, NCI Thesaurus)

Frames with lenses worn in front of the eye for vision correction, eye protection, or protection from UV rays.

(Glasses, NCI Thesaurus)