See Also: Correction(medicine)
correction(dictionary)
Correction(finance)
Correction(money)
correction(dictionary)
occlusal correction(medicine)
Market correction(money)
correction collar(medicine)
Market correction(finance)
correction fluid(dictionary)

correction (iou)



correction noun. ME.
[Old & mod. French from Latin correctio(n-), formed as CORRECT verb: see -ION.]
a. The action of putting right or indicating errors. ME.
under correction subject to correction, esp. by a higher authority.
b. An act or instance of emendation; that which is substituted for what is wrong, esp. in a text. E16.
Reproof of a person for a fault of character or conduct. (Foll. by of the fault.) ME-E19.
Chastisement, disciplinary punishment; esp. corporal punishment. arch. LME.
house of correction (a) Hist. an institution where vagrants and minor offenders were confined and set to work; (b) (in the US) an institution for the short-term confinement of minor offenders.
The neutralization of anything harmful or unpleasant. LME.
Adjustment of a numerical result; the quantity added or subtracted in this. M18.
Comb.: correction fluid a (usu. white) liquid that can be painted over a typed or written error leaving a blank surface on which to type or write afresh; correction officer, correction official, corrections officer, corrections official N. Amer. a prison officer.
correctional adjective of or pertaining to correction L18.
correctioner noun (rare, Shakes.) a person who administers correction: only in L16.