correction

English

Alternative forms

• correxion (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowing 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 (countable and uncountable, 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.
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.

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 (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
• 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)
• Latin: correctio f
• Luxembourgish: Korrektur f, Verbesserung f, Korrektioun f
• Norman: corrig'gie f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: korreksjon m

  Nynorsk: korreksjon m

• Persian: تصحیح‏‎ (fa)
• 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)

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
• 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)
• 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)
• Finnish: rangaistus (fi), seuraamus
• French: correction (fr) f
• German: Besserungsmaßnahme f
• 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)
• Swahili: marekebisho (sw)

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
• Swahili: marekebisho (sw)

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French

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin corrēctiō, corrēctiōnem.

Pronunciation

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Noun

correction f (plural corrections)

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

Related terms

• correct
• correcteur
• correctif
• corregir

Further reading

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