Correction may refer to:
* A euphemism for
punishment
Punishment, commonly, is the imposition of an undesirable or unpleasant outcome upon an individual or group, meted out by an authority—in contexts ranging from child discipline to criminal law—as a deterrent to a particular action or beh ...
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Correction (newspaper)
A correction in a newspaper consists of posting a public notice about a typographical error or factual mistake in a previously published article.
Newspapers usually have specific policies for readers to report factual errors. Generally, this req ...
, the posting of a notice of a mistake in a past issue of a newspaper
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Correction (stock market), in financial markets, a short-term price decline
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''Correction'' (novel), a 1975 novel by Thomas Bernhard
* a mechanism in
mixed electoral systems also known as
compensation
* a perturbation to an equation in
perturbation theory (quantum mechanics)
In quantum mechanics, perturbation theory is a set of approximation schemes directly related to mathematical perturbation for describing a complicated quantum system in terms of a simpler one. The idea is to start with a simple system for which ...
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radiative correction
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oblique correction
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nonoblique correction
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loop correction
See also
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Corrections (disambiguation)
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Corrector
A corrector (English plural ''correctors'', Latin plural ''correctores'') is a person or object practicing correction, usually by removing or rectifying errors.
The word is originally a Roman title, ''corrector'', derived from the Latin verb ' ...
, a political/administrative office in classical Antiquity and some religions
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