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correction

/kuh-rek-shuhn/US // kəˈrɛk ʃən //UK // (kəˈrɛkʃən) //

矫正,纠正,更正,校正

Related Words

amendment修正,修正内容,修正条款,修正书repair维修,修复,修理,修补emendation补语,修订,修正,修改mending补缀,修补,补习,缝补reparation赔偿,赔偿金,赔款,补偿indemnification赔偿,补偿,赔偿金,弥偿alteration改动,改建,改造,变更improvement改善,改进,完善,改进工作redress纠正,补救,补救措施,补救办法amelioration改善,改良,改进,改善情况modification修改,改装,改动,改造reexamination复审,复查,复检,复核rectification整改,矫正,纠正,纠错revising修订,修改,修整,修饰editing编辑,编辑工作,编辑部revisal复审,复查,审校,复核castigation苛责,谴责,辱骂,鞭挞chastisement责罚,惩罚,刑罚,惩戒admonition训诫,告诫,劝诫,谏言rod杆件,拉杆,杆状物,杆子

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : something that is substituted or proposed for what is wrong or inaccurate; emendation.
    • : the act of correcting.
    • : punishment intended to reform, improve, or rehabilitate; chastisement; reproof.
    • : Usually corrections. the various methods, as incarceration, parole, and probation, by which society deals with convicted offenders.
    • : a quantity applied or other adjustment made in order to increase accuracy, as in the use of an instrument or the solution of a problem: A five degree correction will put the ship on course.
    • : a reversal of the trend of stock prices, especially temporarily, as after a sharp advance or decline in the previous trading sessions.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounadjustment; fixing
Forms: corrections
Synonyms
alteration改动,改建,改造,变更amelioration改善,改良,改进,改善情况amendment修正,修正内容,修正条款,修正书editing编辑,编辑工作,编辑部emendation补语,修订,修正,修改improvement改善,改进,完善,改进工作indemnification赔偿,补偿,赔偿金,弥偿mending补缀,修补,补习,缝补modification修改,改装,改动,改造rectification整改,矫正,纠正,纠错redress纠正,补救,补救措施,补救办法reexamination复审,复查,复检,复核repair维修,修复,修理,修补reparation赔偿,赔偿金,赔款,补偿revisal复审,复查,审校,复核amending修订,修正,修改,修订的changing改变,变化,更改,变化的remodeling改造,重塑,重塑身体,改建
noundiscipline
Forms: corrections
Synonyms
admonition训诫,告诫,劝诫,谏言castigation苛责,谴责,辱骂,鞭挞chastisement责罚,惩罚,刑罚,惩戒punishment惩罚,惩处,刑罚,处罚reformation改革,改造,革新,改革开放reproof转载,转述,转载请注明出处,转载声明rod杆件,拉杆,杆状物,杆子punition惩罚,刑罚,惩戒,惩处

Examples

  • Although imposing dubious regulatory corrections onto run-amok commercial systems are of limited utility, new public interest obligations for our digital age could be part of the solution.

  • What happened in Germany was that there was a major correction in course, which obviously had to happen based on what happened in the ’30s and ’40s.

  • The state’s GOP responded not by considering course corrections, but by doubling down in ways that seem likely to make it harder to curtail Democratic gains there in the future.

  • People of color and immigrants are overrepresented not just in grocery jobs but also in meatpacking, public transit and corrections facilities, where outbreaks have taken a heavy toll.

  • A system alerts satellite operators to potential collision paths and allows for course corrections where possible.

  • What 15 months in a federal correction institution will be like, according to a man who counsels to-be inmates.

  • Correction: Officer Jose Rodriguez was misidentified in several places in an earlier version of this story.

  • Correction: An earlier version of this article said John Lewis attended the event, not Elijah Cummings.

  • CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story stated that ISIS has been known to use the application FireChat.

  • Correction: The original article stated that Starboard Strategic Inc. had undertaken the Internet media buy for the NRA.

  • This mania for correction shows itself too in relation to the authorities themselves.

  • He worketh under correction, and seeketh to rest: let his hands be idle, and he seeketh liberty.

  • These evidences of an impulse to look on correction as a quite proper thing are corroborated by stories of self-punishment.

  • I am of opinion too, that the Indecency of the next Verse, you spill upon me, would admit of an equal Correction.

  • An imperfect vow, on account of its imperfection, would require correction.

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