Correction

Pronunciation: k?r-r?k"sh?n
n.
  1. The act of correcting, or making that right which was wrong; change for the better; amendment; rectification, as of an erroneous statement.
  2. The act of reproving or punishing, or that which is intended to rectify or to cure faults; punishment; discipline; chastisement.
  3. That which is substituted in the place of what is wrong; an emendation; as, the corrections on a proof sheet should be set in the margin.
  4. Abatement of noxious qualities; the counteraction of what is inconvenient or hurtful in its effects; as, the correction of acidity in the stomach.
  5. An allowance made for inaccuracy in an instrument; as, chronometer correction; compass correction.
    6. Correction line (Surv.),
    a parallel used as a new base line in laying out township in the government lands of the United States. The adoption at certain intervals of a correction line is necessitated by the convergence of of meridians, and the statute requirement that the townships must be squares.
    House of correction ,
    a house where disorderly persons are confined; a bridewell.
    Under correction ,
    subject to correction; admitting the possibility of error.