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Definition of Correction

Correction

  1. The act of correcting, or making that right which was wrong; change for the better; amendment; rectification, as of an erroneous statement.
  2. The act of reproving or punishing, or that which is intended to rectify or to cure faults; punishment; discipline; chastisement.
  3. 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.
  4. Abatement of noxious qualities; the counteraction of what is inconvenient or hurtful in its effects; as, the correction of acidity in the stomach.
  5. An allowance made for inaccuracy in an instrument; as, chronometer correction; compass correction.

Correction Quotations

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

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

Prices are going up. Unemployment is continue to go up. And we have not had the necessary correction for the financial bubble created by our Federal Reserve system.
Ron Paul

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
Robert Louis Stevenson

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
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Correction Translations

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

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