correction
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2.7
- noun
- /kəˈrɛkʃən/
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corrección
- The teacher provided a correction to the student's essay to help improve his writing skills.
- make corrections
- correction of mistakes
- error correction
This looks like the same colour correction as Pretty Little Liars.
- This looks like the same colour correction as Pretty Little Liars.
- Like they'll have built in vision correction for each eye independently.
- So AMD also issued a correction on its CPU specifications.
- It is only by reading aloud with feedback and correction that real gains in reading unnoted.
- So this can result in a correction in in this.
- And that's why there are no corrections because they were lying from Jump Street.
- I should have maybe done the corrections after on the your big daddy.
- Actually, no correction, If I'm drunk, I will grab my phone.
- And if somebody's, if correction has to happen, it doesn't have to be by me.
Examples
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Okay, I'll make these corrections and put it out there.
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Before you leave, have you finished making the corrections?
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We can issue a correction.
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The college students made corrections and wrote questions and comments on the website.
Academic text (2013) -
In part, this was because corrections policies themselves were so new.
Academic text (2017) -
There should be a copy with corrections on my desk.
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After the consensus of the experts was reached, necessary corrections were made to reflect their opinions.
Academic text (2008) -
Other in-service teacher participants made several changes and corrections to the criteria within each domain.
Academic text (2008) -
Clinically, this may mean the correction of inappropriate or unnecessary labeling/staging of the disease status.
Academic text (2017) -
Marty Muckraker reporting live with a correction to this morning's weather forecast.
Synonyms
133
2.9
A small change that makes something fit or work better
94
2.9
A change made to improve or correct something
90
3.8
An action that corrects a mistake or bad situation
76
1.0
An action that makes something work again
57
2.8
A change made to improve text, like a book or article
24
1.9
Repairing something to make it work again
8
6.3
The process of fixing a problem so something works properly
3
5.7
Something used to fix a problem, like a device or action
1
7.4
Fixing something that is wrong after a mistake
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A way to reduce false positive results when running many statistical tests
- Specialized
A way of adding extra information to data so small errors can be found and fixed
How Thorough
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Correction comes from the Latin corrigere, which means 'to make right' and is related to the root rect seen in words like direct. So a correction is something that makes a mistake right.