correction

English

Alternative forms

• correxion (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English correccioun, correction, from Old French correccion (French correction), from Latin corrēctiō. Doublet of correctio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈɹɛkʃən/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: cor‧rec‧tion
• Rhymes: -ɛkʃən

Noun

correction (countable and uncountable, plural corrections)

1. The act of correcting.
2. A substitution for an error or mistake.
3. (chiefly in the plural) Punishment that is intended to rehabilitate an offender.
   • 1973 December 29, David A. DeNeef, “The Incident At Bridgewater”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 28, page 2:

     As the facts of the case were investigated, it became apparent that before us was the story of a man whom the entire machinery of law enforcement and correction had conspired against from the beginning to the end.

4. An amount or quantity of something added or subtracted so as to correct.
5. A decline in a stock market price after a large rise.
6. (procedure word, military) a station's indication that previous information was incorrect and will continue with correct information from the last correct transmitted

   I have four T-80 tanks at grid Three-niner-niner-four-eight-eight, Correction: Grid Three niner-niner-four-eight-five. How copy? Over.

Hyponyms

• hypercorrection
• self-correction

Derived terms

• autocorrection
• Bessel's correction
• colometric correction
• corflu
• correctional
• correction center
• correction centre
• correctioner
• correction factor
• correction fluid
• correctionist
• correction line
• correction officer
• correction paper
• correction tape
• gamma correction
• geocorrection
• Heckman correction
• house of correction
• immunocorrection
• incorrection
• miscorrection
• noncorrection
• oblique correction
• overcorrection
• political correction
• precorrection
• recorrection
• undercorrection
• under correction

Translations

act of correcting

• Arabic: تَصْحِيح m (taṣḥīḥ)
• Armenian: ուղղում (hy) (uġġum)
• Belarusian: выпраўле́нне n (vypraŭljénnje), папра́ўка f (papráŭka)
• Bulgarian: попра́вка (bg) f (poprávka), коре́кция (bg) f (korékcija)
• Catalan: correcció (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 修正 (zh) (xiūzhèng), 校正 (zh) (jiàozhèng)

• Crimean Tatar: tüzetme
• Danish: rettelse c
• Dutch: verbetering (nl) f, correctie (nl) f
• Finnish: korjaus (fi), korjaaminen (fi)
• French: correction (fr) f
• Galician: corrección (gl) f
• German: Korrektur (de) f, Berichtigung (de) f, Verbesserung (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: διόρθωσις f (diórthōsis)

• Hebrew: תיקון / תִּקּוּן (he) m (tikún)
• Hungarian: javítás (hu), helyesbítés (hu), kiigazítás (hu), korrekció (hu)
• Indonesian: koreksi (id)
• Irish: ceartú m
• Italian: correzione (it) f
• Japanese: 訂正 (ja) (ていせい teisei), 修正 (ja) (しゅうせい shūsei)
• Korean: 정정(訂正) (ko) (jeongjeong), 보정(補正) (ko) (bojeong), 수정(修訂) (ko) (sujeong)
• Latin: correctio f
• Luxembourgish: Korrektur f, Verbesserung f, Korrektioun f
• Malay: pembetulan
• Norman: corrig'gie f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: korreksjon m, rettelse (no) m, retting (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: korreksjon m

• Occitan: correccion (oc) f
• Persian: تصحیح (fa) (tashih)
• Portuguese: correção (pt) f
• Romanian: corecție (ro) f, corectare (ro) f
• Russian: исправле́ние (ru) n (ispravlénije), корре́кция (ru) f (korrékcija), попра́вка (ru) f (poprávka), пра́вка (ru) f (právka), корректи́рование (ru) n (korrektírovanije)
• Spanish: corrección (es) f
• Swahili: marekebisho (sw)
• Tajik: тасҳеҳ (tasheh)
• Turkish: düzeltme (tr)
• Ukrainian: ви́правка f (výpravka), коре́кція (uk) f (korékcija), попра́вка f (poprávka)
• Walloon: ricoridjaedje (wa) m, coridjaedje (wa) m

substitution for an error or mistake

• Belarusian: карэ́кцыя f (karékcyja), выпраўле́нне n (vypraŭljénnje)
• Bulgarian: коре́кция (bg) f (korékcija)
• Catalan: correcció (ca) f
• Czech: oprava (cs) f
• Danish: rettelse
• Dutch: verbetering (nl) f, correctie (nl) f
• Finnish: korjaus (fi), oikaisu (fi)
• French: rectification (fr) f, correction (fr) f
• German: Korrektur (de) f
• Hungarian: javítás (hu)
• Italian: correzione (it) f
• Japanese: 訂正 (ja) (ていせい teisei), 修正 (ja) (しゅうせい shūsei)
• Korean: 정정(訂正) (ko) (jeongjeong)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rettelse (no) m

• Portuguese: correção (pt)
• Russian: корре́кция (ru) f (korrékcija), исправле́ние (ru) n (ispravlénije)
• Slovene: poprávek m
• Spanish: corrección (es)
• Swahili: marekebisho (sw)
• Ukrainian: коре́кція (uk) f (korékcija), ви́правлення n (výpravlennja)
• Yiddish: תּקנה f (takone)

punishment

• Bulgarian: наказа́ние (bg) n (nakazánie)
• Esperanto: puno
• Finnish: rangaistus (fi), seuraamus (fi)
• French: correction (fr) f
• German: Besserungsmaßnahme f
• Hungarian: fegyelmezés (hu), fenyítés (hu), büntetés (hu)
• Italian: correzione (it) f
• Japanese: 矯正 (ja) (きょうせい kyōsei)
• Romanian: corecție (ro) f
• Russian: наказа́ние (ru) n (nakazánije), исправи́тельные ме́ры f pl (ispravítelʹnyje méry), взыска́ние (ru) n (vzyskánije)
• Ukrainian: покара́ння n (pokaránnja)

amount or quantity added or subtracted so as to correct

• Bulgarian: коре́кция (bg) f (korékcija)
• Finnish: korjaus (fi)
• German: Korrektur (de) f
• Italian: correzione (it) f
• Swahili: marekebisho (sw)

decline in a stock market price

• Bulgarian: корекция (bg) f (korekcija)
• Finnish: korjaus (fi), korjausliike
• German: Korrektur (de) f

Further reading

• correction on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin corrēctiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.ʁɛk.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

correction f (plural corrections)

1. correction (all senses)
2. propriety (quality of being proper or correct)

Derived terms

• maison de correction

Related terms

• correct
• correcteur
• correctif
• corriger

Further reading

• “correction”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.