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How to pronounce correction in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms discipline
Type of penalization, penalty, penalisation, punishment
Has types spanking
Derivation correct, correctional
Type Words
Synonyms rectification
Type of improvement
Has types amendment, compensation, emendation, recompense, redress, remediation, remedy, retribution
Derivation correct, correctional
Type Words
Synonyms fudge factor
Type of indefinite quantity
Type Words
Synonyms chastening, chastisement
Type of rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval
Type Words
Type of dip, drop, fall, free fall


market runups are invariably followed by a correction.
Type Words
Type of editing, redaction
Has types erasure
Type Words
Type of therapy
Has types fusion, spinal fusion


the correction of his vision with eye glasses.

Examples of correction

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In other embryos, either the ICM or TE, but not both, showed genetic correction.
From the sciencedaily.com
Strictly from a historical perspective, this market is overdue for a correction.
From the online.wsj.com
A correction is generally considered a drop of 10-20 percent from a recent peak.
From the suntimes.com
A slight check in Britain in July may be little more than a seasonal correction.
From the economist.com
Manage against the approved budget and recommend course correction as necessary.
From the jobview.monster.com
He likes Brazil as an investment destination after its big correction last year.
From the forbes.com
That is the fundamental issue that we need to get onto the table for correction.
From the guardian.co.uk
The summer correction ended in October, and a typical winter months rally began.
From the forbes.com
Sometimes, the B wave trades above the top of wave A as an irregular correction.
From the forbes.com
More examples
  • The act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right
  • A quantity that is added or subtracted in order to increase the accuracy of a scientific measure
  • Something substituted for an error
  • A rebuke for making a mistake
  • A drop in stock market activity or stock prices following a period of increases; "market runups are invariably followed by a correction"
  • Discipline: the act of punishing; "the offenders deserved the harsh discipline they received"
  • A correction in a newspaper is usually the posting of the notice of a typographical error or mistake that appeared in a past issue of a newspaper. Usually, a correction notice appears in its own column.
  • Correction is a novel by Thomas Bernhard, originally published in German in 1975, and first published in English translation in 1979 by Alfred A. Knopf. It is a remarkable work, formally innovative and richly demanding in content.
  • A market trend is a putative tendency of a financial market to move in a particular direction over time. These trends are classified as secular trends for long time frames, primary trends for medium time frames, and secondary trends lasting short times. ...