Definitions For Correction

noun

• The social control of offenders through a system of imprisonment and rehabilitation and probation and parole
• The department of local government that is responsible for managing the treatment of convicted offenders
• The act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right
• Treatment of a specific defect
• The act of disciplining
• A drop in stock market activity or stock prices following a period of increases
• Something substituted for an error
• A rebuke for making a mistake
• A quantity that is added or subtracted in order to increase the accuracy of a scientific measure
• A change that makes something right, true, accurate, etc.
• The act of making something (such as an error or a bad condition) accurate or better : the act of correcting something
• The act or process of punishing and changing the behavior of people who have committed crimes ( US)