correction
矫正,纠正,更正,校正
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Definitions
- 1
- : something that is substituted or proposed for what is wrong or inaccurate; emendation.
- : the act of correcting.
- : punishment intended to reform, improve, or rehabilitate; chastisement; reproof.
- : Usually corrections. the various methods, as incarceration, parole, and probation, by which society deals with convicted offenders.
- : a quantity applied or other adjustment made in order to increase accuracy, as in the use of an instrument or the solution of a problem: A five degree correction will put the ship on course.
- : a reversal of the trend of stock prices, especially temporarily, as after a sharp advance or decline in the previous trading sessions.
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Examples
Although imposing dubious regulatory corrections onto run-amok commercial systems are of limited utility, new public interest obligations for our digital age could be part of the solution.
What happened in Germany was that there was a major correction in course, which obviously had to happen based on what happened in the ’30s and ’40s.
The state’s GOP responded not by considering course corrections, but by doubling down in ways that seem likely to make it harder to curtail Democratic gains there in the future.
People of color and immigrants are overrepresented not just in grocery jobs but also in meatpacking, public transit and corrections facilities, where outbreaks have taken a heavy toll.
A system alerts satellite operators to potential collision paths and allows for course corrections where possible.
What 15 months in a federal correction institution will be like, according to a man who counsels to-be inmates.
Correction: Officer Jose Rodriguez was misidentified in several places in an earlier version of this story.
Correction: An earlier version of this article said John Lewis attended the event, not Elijah Cummings.
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story stated that ISIS has been known to use the application FireChat.
Correction: The original article stated that Starboard Strategic Inc. had undertaken the Internet media buy for the NRA.
This mania for correction shows itself too in relation to the authorities themselves.