correction

English

Alternative forms

• correxion (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English correccioun, correction, from Old French correccion (French correction), from Latin corrēctiō. Doublet of correctio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈɹɛkʃən/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

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

Noun

correction (countable and uncountable, plural corrections)

1. The act of correcting.
2. A substitution for an error or mistake.
3. (chiefly in the plural) 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.
6. (procedure word, military) a station's indication that previous information was incorrect and will continue with correct information from the last correct transmitted

   I have four T-80 tanks at grid Three-niner-niner-four-eight-eight, Correction: Grid Three niner-niner-four-eight-five. How copy? Over.

Hyponyms

• hypercorrection
• self-correction

 

Derived terms

• correction center
• correction centre
• correction fluid

 

Translations

act of correcting

• Arabic: تصحيح‎
• Armenian: ուղղում (hy) (ułłum)
• Bulgarian: поправка (bg) f (popravka), корекция (bg) f (korekcija)
• Catalan: correcció (ca) f
• Chinese:

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

• Crimean Tatar: tüzetme
• Dutch: verbetering (nl) f, correctie (nl) f
• Finnish: korjaus (fi), korjaaminen (fi)
• French: correction (fr) f
• Galician: corrección (gl) f
• German: Korrektur (de) f, Berichtigung (de) f, Verbesserung (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: διόρθωσις f (diórthōsis)

• Hebrew: תיקון‎ (he) m (tiqun)
• Hungarian: javítás (hu), helyesbítés (hu), kiigazítás, korrekció
• Indonesian: koreksi (id)
• 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)
• Latin: correctio f
• Luxembourgish: Korrektur f, Verbesserung f, Korrektioun f
• Malay: pembetulan
• Norman: corrig'gie f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: korreksjon m

  Nynorsk: korreksjon m

• Occitan: correccion (oc) f
• Persian: تصحیح‎ (fa) (tashih)
• Portuguese: correção (pt) f
• Romanian: corecție (ro) f, corectare (ro) f
• Russian: исправле́ние (ru) n (ispravlénije), корре́кция (ru) f (korrékcija), попра́вка (ru) f (poprávka), пра́вка (ru) f (právka), корректи́рование (ru) n (korrektírovanije)
• Spanish: corrección (es) f
• Swahili: marekebisho (sw)
• Tajik: тасҳеҳ (tasheh)
• Walloon: ricoridjaedje (wa) m, coridjaedje (wa) m

substitution for an error or mistake

• Bulgarian: корекция (bg) f (korekcija)
• Catalan: correcció (ca) f
• Czech: oprava (cs) f
• Dutch: verbetering (nl) f, correctie (nl) f
• Finnish: korjaus (fi), oikaisu (fi)
• French: rectification (fr) f, correction (fr) 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)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rettelse m

• Portuguese: correção (pt)
• Russian: корре́кция (ru) f (korrékcija), исправле́ние (ru) n (ispravlénije)
• Slovene: poprávek m
• Spanish: corrección (es)
• Swahili: marekebisho (sw)
• Yiddish: תּקנה‎ f (takone)

punishment

• Bulgarian: наказание (bg) n (nakazanie)
• Esperanto: puno
• Finnish: rangaistus (fi), seuraamus (fi)
• French: correction (fr) f
• German: Besserungsmaßnahme f

• Hungarian: fegyelmezés, fenyítés (hu), büntetés (hu)
• Italian: correzione (it) f
• Japanese: 矯正 (ja) (きょうせい kyōsei)
• Romanian: corecție (ro) f
• Russian: наказа́ние (ru) n (nakazánije), исправи́тельные ме́ры f pl (ispravítelʹnyje méry), взыска́ние (ru) n (vzyskánije)

amount or quantity added or subtracted so as to correct

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

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

decline in a stock market price

• Bulgarian: корекция (bg) f (korekcija)
• Finnish: korjaus (fi), korjausliike

• German: Korrektur (de) f

Further reading

• correction on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin corrēctiō, corrēctiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.ʁɛk.sjɔ̃/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

correction f (plural corrections)

1. correction (all senses)
2. propriety (quality of being proper or correct)

Derived terms

• maison de correction

Related terms

• correct
• correcteur
• correctif
• corriger

Further reading

• “correction”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.