Correction may refer to:
* A euphemism for
punishment
Punishment, commonly, is the imposition of an undesirable or unpleasant outcome upon a group or individual, meted out by an authority—in contexts ranging from child discipline to criminal law—as a response and deterrent to a particular a ...
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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 requ ...
, 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 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 whi ...
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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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