correction

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right
noun a quantity that is added or subtracted in order to increase the accuracy of a scientific measure
noun something substituted for an error

From Middle English correccioun, correction, from Old French correccion (French correction), from Latin corrēctiō. Doublet of correctio.

[ignoring the correction] Yes, for yours. — Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy, Bernard Shaw
They are proof-sheets which need no correction. — Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau
Do you want the house of correction? — Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky

rectification

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