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Definition of Correction
Correction

The act of correcting, or making that right which was wrong; change for the better; amendment; rectification, as of an erroneous statement.

The act of reproving or punishing, or that which is intended to rectify or to cure faults; punishment; discipline; chastisement.

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.

Abatement of noxious qualities; the counteraction of what is inconvenient or hurtful in its effects; as, the correction of acidity in the stomach.

An allowance made for inaccuracy in an instrument; as, chronometer correction; compass correction.

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Correction Quotations

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
John Wooden

Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction.
Kevyn Aucoin

Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put everything right again.
Ernst Mach

Correction Translations

correction in German is Berichtigung, Korrektur
correction in Italian is riforma, emendazione


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