Other forms: corrections
A correction is a notice putting right an earlier mistake. Print a correction, issue a correction, a correction and apology.
Newspapers run a corrections column, usually in a place nobody reads, and the gap between the size of the original error and the size of the correction is a standing complaint. In finance, a correction is a fall of about ten per cent in a market, described that way to suggest it is healthy. In teaching, corrections are the marks on returned work. Note correct, corrective, and course correction.
1nouncorrectionA notice putting right an earlier mistake.
“The newspaper printed a correction after getting the mayor's name wrong.”
2nounfallA fall of about ten per cent in a market.
“It was called a correction for about a week and then a crash.”
correction is a putting right.
Latin correctio comes from corrigere — cor-, together, plus regere, to guide straight. The same regere gives regular, direct and rule, so correcting something is straightening it.
Latin
corrēctiō
Old French
correccion
Middle English
correccioun
English, today
correction
From Middle English correccioun, correction, from Old French correccion (French correction), from Latin corrēctiō. a doublet of correctio.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA