correction

English

Alternative forms

• correxion (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old French correccion (French correction), from Latin corrēctiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈɹɛkʃən/

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

Noun

correction (plural corrections)

1. The act of correcting.
2. A substitution for an error or mistake.
3. Punishment that is intended to rehabilitate an offender.
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.

Derived terms

• correction centre, correction center
• correction fluid
• hypercorrection

Translations

act of correcting

• Arabic: تصحيح
• Bulgarian: поправка (bg) f (popravka), корекция (bg) f (korekcija)
• Catalan: correcció f
• Chinese:

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

• Crimean Tatar: tüzetme
• Dutch: verbetering (nl) f, correctie (nl) f
• Finnish: korjaus
• French: correction (fr) f
• German: Korrektur (de) f, Berichtigung (de) f, Verbesserung (de) f
• Hebrew: תיקון m (tiqun)
• Hungarian: javítás (hu)
• 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)
• Jèrriais: corrig'gie f
• Latin: correctio f
• Luxembourgish: Korrektur f, Verbesserung f, Korrektioun f
• Persian: تصحیح (fa)
• Portuguese: correção (pt) f
• Russian: исправление (ru) n (ispravlénije), коррекция (ru) f (korrékcija), поправка (ru) f (poprávka), правка (ru) f (právka), корректирование (ru) n (korrektírovanije)
• Spanish: corrección (es) f
• Swahili: marekebisho (sw)
• Tajik: тасҳеҳ (tasheh)

substitution for an error or mistake

• Bulgarian: корекция (bg) f (korekcija)
• Catalan: correcció f
• Czech: oprava (cs) f
• Dutch: verbetering (nl) f, correctie (nl) 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)
• Russian: коррекция (ru) f (korrékcija), исправление (ru) n (ispravlénije)
• Slovene: poprávek m
• Swahili: marekebisho (sw)

punishment

• Bulgarian: наказание (bg) n (nakazanie)
• German: Besserungsmaßnahme f
• Italian: correzione (it) f
• Japanese: 矯正 (ja) (きょうせい kyōsei)

• Russian: наказание (ru) n (nakazánije), исправительные меры f pl (ispravítelʹnyje méry), взыскание (ru) n (vzyskánije)
• Swahili: marekebisho (sw)

amount or quantity added or subtracted so as to correct

• Bulgarian: корекция (bg) f (korekcija)
• German: Korrektur (de) f

• Italian: correzione (it) f
• Swahili: marekebisho (sw)

decline in a stock market price

• Bulgarian: корекция (bg) f (korekcija)
• German: Korrektur (de) f

• Swahili: marekebisho (sw)

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French

Pronunciation

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Noun

correction f (plural corrections)

1. correction

External links

• “correction” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).