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correction 音标拼音: [kɚ'ɛkʃən] n. 订正,改正,改正的地方 订正,改正,改正的地方 correction校正
correction误差改正 correction校正 correction n 1: the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right [ synonym: { correction}, { rectification}] 2: a quantity that is added or subtracted in order to increase the accuracy of a scientific measure [ synonym: { correction}, { fudge factor}] 3: something substituted for an error 4: a rebuke for making a mistake [ synonym: { correction}, { chastening}, { chastisement}] 5: a drop in stock market activity or stock prices following a period of increases; " market runups are invariably followed by a correction" 6: the act of punishing; " the offenders deserved the harsh discipline they received" [ synonym: { discipline}, { correction}] 7: treatment of a specific defect; " the correction of his vision with eye glasses" Correction \ Cor* rec" tion\ ( k? r- r? k" sh? n), n. [ L. correctio: cf. F. correction.] 1. The act of correcting, or making that right which was wrong; change for the better; amendment; rectification, as of an erroneous statement. [ 1913 Webster] The due correction of swearing, rioting, neglect of God' s word, and other scandalouss vices. -- Strype. [ 1913 Webster] 2. The act of reproving or punishing, or that which is intended to rectify or to cure faults; punishment; discipline; chastisement. [ 1913 Webster] Correction and instruction must both work Ere this rude beast will profit. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 3. That which is substituted in the place of what is wrong; an emendation; as, the corrections on a proof sheet should be set in the margin. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Abatement of noxious qualities; the counteraction of what is inconvenient or hurtful in its effects; as, the correction of acidity in the stomach. [ 1913 Webster] 5. An allowance made for inaccuracy in an instrument; as, chronometer correction; compass correction. [ 1913 Webster] { Correction line} ( Surv.), a parallel used as a new base line in laying out township in the government lands of the United States. The adoption at certain intervals of a correction line is necessitated by the convergence of of meridians, and the statute requirement that the townships must be squares. { House of correction}, a house where disorderly persons are confined; a bridewell. { Under correction}, subject to correction; admitting the possibility of error. [ 1913 Webster] 104 Moby Thesaurus words for " correction": admonishment, admonition, amendment, amends, appraisal, appraisement, approximation, assessment, assize, assizement, calculation, castigation, chastening, chastisement, chiding, compensation, computation, condign punishment, corrigendum, deserts, determination, disciplinary measures, discipline, editing, emendation, estimate, estimation, evaluation, ferule, fixing, gauging, improvement, infliction, instrumentation, judgment, judicial punishment, lecture, lesson, making right, measure, measurement, measuring, mending, mensuration, metric system, nemesis, objurgation, overhaul, overhauling, pains, pains and punishments, pay, payment, penal retribution, penalty, penology, punishment, punition, quantification, quantization, rating, rebuke, recension, recompense, rectification, redaction, redress, remedy, repair, repairing, reparation, reprehension, reprimand, reproach, reprobation, reproof, reproval, rescript, rescription, retribution, retributive justice, revampment, revisal, revise, revised edition, revision, rewrite, rewriting, rod, satisfaction, scolding, scourge, sermon, spanking, survey, surveying, telemetering, telemetry, triangulation, troubleshooting, upbraiding, valuation, well- deserved punishment, what- forCORRECTION, punishment. Chastisement by one having authority of a person who has committed some offence, for the purpose of bringing him to legal subjection. 2. It is chiefly exercised in a parental manner, by parents, or those who are placed in loco parentis. A parent may therefore justify the correction of the child either corporally or by confinement; and a schoolmaster, under whose care and instruction a parent has placed his child, may equally justify similar correction; but the correction in both, cases must be moderate, and in proper manner. Com. Dig. Pleader, 3 M. 19; Hawk. c. 60, s. 23, and c. 62, s. 2 c. 29, s. 5. 3. The master of an apprentice, for disobedience, may correct him moderately 1 Barn. & Cres. 469 Cro. Car. 179 2 Show. 289; 10 Mart. Lo. It. 38; but he cannot delegate the authority to another. 9 Co. 96. 4. A master has no right to correct his servants who are not apprentices. 5. Soldiers are liable to moderate correction from their superiors. For the sake of maintaining their discipline on board of the navy, the captain of a vessel, either belonging to the United States, or to private individuals, may inflict moderate correction on a sailor for disobedience or disorderly conduct. Abbott on Shipp. 160; 1 Ch. Pr. 73; 14 John. R. 119; 15 ) lass. 365; 1 Bay, 3; Bee, 161; 1 Pet. Adm. Dec. 168; Molloy, 209; 1 Ware' s R. 83. Such has been the general rule. But by a proviso to an act of congress, approved the 28th of September, l850, flogging in the navy and on board vessels of commerce was abolished. 6. Any excess of correction by the parent, master, officer, or captain, may render the party guilty of an assault and battery, and liable to all its consequences. In some prisons, the keepers have the right to correct the prisoners.
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