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Corrections   /kərˈɛkʃənz/   Listen
Corrections

noun
1.
The department of local government that is responsible for managing the treatment of convicted offenders.  Synonym: department of corrections.
2.
The social control of offenders through a system of imprisonment and rehabilitation and probation and parole.


Correction

noun
1.
The act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right.  Synonym: rectification.
2.
A quantity that is added or subtracted in order to increase the accuracy of a scientific measure.  Synonym: fudge factor.
3.
Something substituted for an error.
4.
A rebuke for making a mistake.  Synonyms: chastening, chastisement.
5.
A drop in stock market activity or stock prices following a period of increases.
6.
The act of punishing.  Synonym: discipline.
7.
Treatment of a specific defect.



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"Corrections" Quotes from Famous Books



... feel, but he could mark with the pencil. Kessler moved the map nearer and the terrain sprang up in detail. In some cases, he could see it more clearly than when he had been there, because on the map there was no fog. Bolden made a few corrections and the doctor took the map away and removed ...
— Bolden's Pets • F. L. Wallace
... to the corrections in the proofs it must be remembered that the more carefully an article is written the smaller the expense for author's corrections. This charge is often a great source of contention between the author and ...
— Up To Date Business - Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.) • Various
... These corrections were included in the printed book. The uncorrected line is given in brackets for reference. Additional changes and problems are listed at the ...
— The Fatal Jealousie (1673) • Henry Nevil Payne
... that thou wilt make all my bed in my sickness;[26] all my bed; that which way soever I turn, I may turn to thee; and as I feel thy hand upon all my body, so I may find it upon all my bed, and see all my corrections, and all my refreshings to flow from one and the same, and all from thy hand. As thou hast made these feathers thorns, in the sharpness of this sickness, so, Lord, make these thorns feathers again, feathers of thy dove, ...
— Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions - Together with Death's Duel • John Donne
... expedition I have not travelled over much new ground, the advantages to geography are considerable, owing to the professional observations of Lieutenant Baker, R.N., to whom I confided the entire charge of the topographical department. Some slight corrections have been made in observations for longitude taken during my first expedition; and as every place is now rigidly attested on the map, that portion of Central Africa is most thoroughly investigated, and the astronomical positions ...
— Ismailia • Samuel W. Baker


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