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| Sounds | kereh'kshahn |
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| Rhymes | Aachen, Aaron, abandon, and 2521 more rhymes in ahn... |
| Meaning | The act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake. Setting right. |
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| Synonyms | rectification |
| Broader | improvement |
| Narrower | redress, remedy, remediation; retribution; recompense, compensation; amendment; emendation |
| Adjectives | correctional; correctional |
| Verbs | correct |
| Meaning | A quantity that is added or subtracted in order to increase the accuracy of a scientific measure. |
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| Synonyms | fudge factor |
| Broader | indefinite quantity |
| Meaning | Something substituted for an error. |
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| Broader | editing, redaction |
| Narrower | erasure |
| Meaning | A rebuke for making a mistake. |
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| Synonyms | chastening, chastisement |
| Broader | rebuke, reproof, reproval, reprehension, reprimand |
| Meaning | A drop in stock market activity or stock prices following a period of increases. |
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| Examples | "market runups are invariably followed by a correction" |
| Broader | drop, dip, fall, free fall |
| Meaning | The act of punishing. |
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| Synonyms | discipline |
| Broader | punishment, penalty, penalization, penalisation |
| Narrower | spanking |
| Adjectives | correctional; correctional |
| Verbs | correct |
| Meaning | Treatment of a specific defect. |
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| Examples | "the correction of his vision with eye glasses" |
| Broader | therapy |
| Narrower | fusion, spinal fusion |
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