Definition of "correction" []

• The act or process of correcting. (noun)
• Something offered or substituted for a mistake or fault: made corrections in the report. (noun)
• Punishment intended to rehabilitate or improve. (noun)
• The treatment of offenders through a system of penal incarceration, rehabilitation, probation, and parole, or the administrative system by which these are effectuated. (noun)
• An amount or quantity added or subtracted in order to correct. (noun)

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• "It's no mistake capcom changed it in the state it was what we call a correction from a previous error!"
• "And he suggested that it might not recover at all -- that it might be what we call a correction and that we might be just simply seeing a new economic reality in this country."
• "But not everyone was expecting a major near-term correction in stocks: "Perhaps those calling for a correction are the ones that missed the rally," said analysts at Calyon."