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What is the noun for correcting?

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correction
  1. The act of correcting.
  2. A substitution for an error or mistake.
  3. Punishment that is intended to rehabilitate an offender.
  4. An amount or quantity of something added or subtracted so as to correct.
  5. A decline in a stock market price after a large rise.
  6. (procedure word) a station's indication that previous information was incorrect and will continue with correct information from the last correct transmitted
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  8. Examples:
    1. “Efforts aimed at ensuring data collection, correction of data and technical errors, as well as engaging in the re-engineering of processes and procedures would continue, he added.”
      “On the contrary, correction and rehabilitation were aimed at protecting the safety and security of the public.”
      “The correction of negative externalities provides one economic justification for the Tobin tax.”
correctness
  1. freedom from error
  2. conformity to the truth or to fact
  3. conformity to recognized standards
  4. (computing) The state of an algorithm that correctly mirrors its specification.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “The argument for the correctness of this analysis depends on several important and non-trivial intermediate conclusions.”
      “Unfortunately, the correctness of this approach is not studied.”
      “Her heart was still so full of thanksgiving that there was temporarily no room in it for personal animosity, and after all, von Reden had never failed to conduct himself with correctness.”
corrective
  1. Something that corrects or counteracts something, especially an injury or disability
  2. (obsolete) limitation; restriction
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Research extraneous to the agenda would, in fact, complement agenda research in a most positive fashion, potentially serving as a corrective for incomplete agendas.”
      “The regular consumption of vitamin and mineral food supplements is a suitable corrective for all aspects of inadequate nutrition due to poor eating habits.”
corrector
  1. One who corrects.
  2. (obsolete) A proofreader.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Often, the production of an appropriate null corrector plate can be as difficult as the fabrication of the actual optic.”
      “Panavision would then furnish them with corrector lenses that would focus the lens properly in their theater.”
      “The Maksutov telescope is similar to the Schmidt design, but uses a more spherical corrector lens.”
correctrix
  1. A woman or girl who corrects; a female corrector; a correctress.
correctress
  1. A woman or girl who corrects; a female corrector; a correctrix.
correctability
  1. the condition of being correctable
correxion
  1. Obsolete spelling of correction
correctour
  1. Obsolete form of corrector.
correctitude
  1. The quality of being correct
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  3. Examples:
    1. “It was not an age distinguished by its wrist-slapping correctitude over punctuation.”
      “Another curious conflict between political correctitude and traditional teachings was illuminated by the poster.”
      “In the nation's cultural wars, he said, a leftist political correctitude based on anti-intellectual premises had been replaced by a rightist one.”
correcter
  1. (now rare) corrector
correctitudes
correctnesses
correctresses
  1. plural of correctress
correctives
  1. plural of corrective
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  3. Examples:
    1. “While his specific correctives continue to be ignored or treated as quaint or whimsical, the book has appeal for the modern reader.”
      “What do you think would be the fundamental consequences of such a crisis, and what, in your opinion, are the correctives that should be adopted?”
      “For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to overtake him.”
correctours
  1. plural of correctour
corrections
  1. plural of correction
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Later we made the corrections and gave each person a copy, so that they never thought that they'd been gypped.”
      “I will amend archived entries to include corrections of fact and advise you accordingly.”
      “The researchers recorded the amount of time that employees keyboarded and the amount of time they spent making error corrections.”
correctors
correxions
  1. plural of correxion
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