Definition of Correction

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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

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

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

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

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

Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
Alvin Toffler

Because we are continually growing in the Lord, preachers and lay people alike must be open to the Lord's correction.
Benny Hinn

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

The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
Agnes de Mille

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.
Hosea Ballou

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

Correction Translations

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

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