Synonym: chastening, chastisement, discipline, fudge factor, rectification. Similar words: correct, resurrection, incorrect, correctly, correlation, direction, rectification, in all directions. Meaning: [-kʃn] 
n. 1. the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right 2. a quantity that is added or subtracted in order to increase the accuracy of a scientific measure 3. something substituted for an error 4. a rebuke for making a mistake 5. a drop in stock market activity or stock prices following a period of increases 6. the act of punishing 7. treatment of a specific defect.
n. 1. the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right 2. a quantity that is added or subtracted in order to increase the accuracy of a scientific measure 3. something substituted for an error 4. a rebuke for making a mistake 5. a drop in stock market activity or stock prices following a period of increases 6. the act of punishing 7. treatment of a specific defect. 
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61. A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment. John Wooden 
62. After all, a 30 percent correction in October 1987 had almost no impact on real economic growth.
63. But our correction had put us on course and we crossed the shoreline at Alexandria.
64. Even analysts who have been busily downgrading tech stocks tend to characterize the rout as a correction, not a long-term trend.
65. A correction factor was then applied, as before, to gross up for the entire Scotch Whisky industry.
66. These, it was argued, concern the correction of errors of fact or omissions at the time of birth.
67. Such a position is not just a correction of Kant but a fundamental rejection in favor of another and more adequate criterion.
68. One major cause of the current correction, many analysts and tech executives say, resides on Wall Street.
69. Some Wall Street analysts think that the high-flying networking stocks are due for a correction, but they are not unanimous.
70. Correction of errors or alterations on the stencil are easily made by using special correcting fluid. 3.
71. Any means of correction may be used but all corrections should be neat and unobtrusive.
72. He therefore requires and merits more enlightened treatment than the correction preferred previously.
73. Capitalism needed the house of correction, and somehow it magically came into being as a result.
74. It could be argued that it came too late to correct the inequity completely, but at least it was a partial correction.
75. The consensus expected some sort of correction in the stock market, with prices moving higher later in the year.
76. I can't solve this by confessing that I didn't call Chuck Huckelberry in time to make a correction.
77. Off the gas, gentle steering correction; the vehicle responds admirably to corrective action.
78. Categorical outcomes, such as prevalence rates, were initially compared by 2 with Yates' correction.
79. Traders said yesterday's drop was intended as a correction to over-reaction by the market.
80. Finally the relevant torque correction factor is found from Table 5.2.
81. It doesn't have error correction or data compression and for ￡249, I'd expect these features to be standard.
82. With these, the highly skilled and trained chiropractor effects a purely bio-mechanical correction to restore normal movement and function.
83. The panel asked for the new data to be published as a correction to the original paper.
84. Unfortunately, this trim correction may not be correct when the model leaves the ground.
85. Glucose metabolism and insulin secretion are disturbed; hypoglycemia is common and potentially lethal but usually responds promptly to dietary correction.
86. The protocol incorporates yet another type of error correction and aspects of handling files.
87. The following sections discuss accepted literature methods of error detection and correction.
88. Dictionary look-up methods give impressive error correction but require much greater storage and computation.
89. Spelling correction algorithms usually suggest a few alternative words which are in some sense similar to the detected misspelled word.
90. That will basically cover fifty... correction eighty percent of all charges.
More similar words: correct, resurrection, incorrect, correctly, correlation, direction, rectification, in all directions, corruption, section, election, selection, affection, injection, infection, objection, connection, collection, protection, projection, convection, reflection, inflection, inspection, vivisection, predilection, affectionate, reconstruction, retrospection, introspection.