Correction is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CORRECTION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of correcting
• the action or process of correcting something
• a change that rectifies an error or inaccuracy
• used to introduce an amended version of something one has just said
• a quantity adjusting a numerical result to allow for a departure from standard conditions
• punishment, especially that of criminals in prison intended to rectify their behaviour
• The act of correcting, or making that right which was wrong; change for the better; amendment; rectification, as of an erroneous statement.
• The act of reproving or punishing, or that which is intended to rectify or to cure faults; punishment; discipline; chastisement.
• That which is substituted in the place of what is wrong; an emendation; as, the corrections on a proof sheet should be set in the margin.
• Abatement of noxious qualities; the counteraction of what is inconvenient or hurtful in its effects; as, the correction of acidity in the stomach.
• An allowance made for inaccuracy in an instrument; as, chronometer correction; compass correction.
• the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right
• a quantity that is added or subtracted in order to increase the accuracy of a scientific measure
• something substituted for an error
• a rebuke for making a mistake
• a drop in stock market activity or stock prices following a period of increases
• the act of punishing
• treatment of a specific defect
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the action or an instance of correcting; as amendment, rectification; rebuke, punishment; a bringing into conformity with a standard; neutralization, counteraction

Words related to CORRECTION

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Words that contain CORRECTION

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How to use CORRECTION in a sentence

• I urged for her approbation or correction of my written terms.
• They were startled on reading the new poems in print at the manifest need of revision and correction before they could be given to the world.
• With these she struggled bravely, and set herself to the hard task of correction and discipline.
• We likewise visited the public schools, the house of correction, penitentiary, hospital, and other public institutions.
• Leaving the house of correction, we proceeded to the village.
• Not tending to the preservation of a normal state, but at best to the correction of some abnormal one, its whole value, if it have any, lies in the rarity of its application.
• True, these were sadly in need of revision and correction.
• The correction of that geographical error was by no means the only important result that followed the three great voyages.
• Instead of receiving my correction, he answered it was my blunder and not his, and that I had mistaken the key.
• Ecclesiasticus Chapter 30 Of correction of children.
• I do not mean that a person never changes his judgment after having once made it, but a change of judgment is not necessarily a correction.
• He preferred that the President should openly direct him to make the correction.
• It will be seen that the dates as adopted in Europe are approximate only, and liable to correction if better data are obtainable.
• Thou hast written regarding the articles and papers which are written by the believers of God and the forwarding of them to this land for correction.
• In which case correction cannot retrieve either, but often produces evils which are worse than the disease.
• He stayed for life, truth, and correction, and he found all.
• If an erroneous impression has gone abroad on this subject, it is doing a service to science to insure its correction, by drawing attention to it.
• It is a paragraph respecting the power of Congress over the circulation of State banks, which might perhaps need explanation or correction.
• It is a free sketch of the New Priestly System, on the easel, awaiting correction and completion at the hands of Ezra and others.
• The student can then compare his own solution of it with the one that has come down to him, thus receiving correction and guidance in his work from the hand of the master.
• The public is greedy for scandal, but looks with suspicion and coldness upon a correction.
• Society, to be sure, has a convenient means of correction.
• For every mistake I receive a loud, severe correction.

Similar words containing RREC without suffix tion and without prefix co

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