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corrigendum

corrigendum

1 9.9
A notice that tells readers about a mistake and its correction in a book or article
  • noun
  • /ˌkɔːrɪˈdʒɛndəm/
  • Specialized
: corrigendum
  • The scientific journal issued a corrigendum to correct errors in the previously published article.

Examples

  • No corrigendum has been issued for that paper.

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  • I imagine that the mistake is not significant enough to warrant a corrigendum.

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  • To date, no such corrigendum has been issued.

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  • If it was significant enough to correct, it was significant enough to issue a Corrigendum.

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  • I submit that Mann did not want to issue a corrigendum.

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  • Mann has not issued a corrigendum in EOS.

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  • In either case, no corrigendum has been issued for EOS 2003, and this spaghetti graph still gets cited.

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  • I submit that Mann was obliged to issue a corrigendum in Eos rather than merely do it correctly in Reviews of Geophysics.

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  • Of all the criticisms I've read so far, Steve's seems the most likely to result in Muller publishing a corrigendum or clarification.

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  • The author published a corrigendum to address the mistakes found in his latest book.

Synonyms

correction
vscorrigendum
168 2.7

A change that fixes a mistake in a document or report

is specific to formal published errors and their official notices
erratum
vscorrigendum
  • Specialized
1 9.3

A printed note that corrects a mistake in a book or article

is the formal published notice or record of that correction
emendation
vscorrigendum
  • Formal
1 8.9

A change an editor makes to a text to correct mistakes

is an official publication notice rather than a direct editorial change

Surface Forms

corrigendum singular
corrigenda plural

Etymology

Corrigendum comes from the Latin corrigere, meaning 'to correct', and it literally means 'something that must be corrected'. So, a corrigendum today is the official note that tells readers about a mistake in a published work and how to fix it.