Dictionary entries for 'correction'

Synonyms

cor·rec·tion (kə-rĕḱshən)

noun

The act or process of correcting.
Something offered or substituted for a mistake or fault: made corrections in the report.
1. Punishment intended to rehabilitate or improve.
2. corrections. The treatment of offenders through a system of penal incarceration, rehabilitation, probation, and parole, or the administrative system by which these are effectuated.
An amount or quantity added or subtracted in order to correct.
A decline in stock-market activity or prices following a period of increases.