Synonyms:
correction, rectification
Meaning: the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right
Synonyms:
correction, fudge_factor
Meaning: a quantity that is added or subtracted in order to increase the accuracy of a scientific measure
Synonyms:
correction
Meaning: something substituted for an error
Usage examples
Correction must be proportioned to occasions.
His divination drew breath then; only her correction might be wrong.
If a slave was maimed or killed under their correction, it was no loss of theirs.
It has been said, that he used unprecedented and improper instruments of correction.
Yet, as good things become evil by excess, correction, by being immoderate, may become cruel.
Pride they consider the most execrable vice, and one who acts proudly is chastised with the most ruthless correction.
He found it increasingly difficult to make decisions; he would correct and alter back and then repeat the correction, perhaps half a dozen times.
If in the presence of such obstinacy I was forced to permit, with deep regret, the use of great severity, my task of fraternal correction has its limits.
'The charge is, that he has used immoderate and cruel correction. Correction, in itself, is not cruel; children, being not reasonable, can be governed only by fear.
Nor did the unbelieving king escape without the scourge of Divine severity in chastisement and correction; for he was troubled with frequent fits of madness, and possessed by an unclean spirit.