Correction
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
(Difference between revisions)
| Revision as of 05:42, 10 September 2009 Jahsonic (Talk | contribs) ← Previous diff |
Revision as of 05:43, 10 September 2009 Jahsonic (Talk | contribs) Next diff → |
||
| Line 5: | Line 5: | ||
| # An [[amount]] or [[quantity]] of something [[added]] or [[subtracted]] so as to [[correct]]. | # An [[amount]] or [[quantity]] of something [[added]] or [[subtracted]] so as to [[correct]]. | ||
| # A [[decline]] in a [[stock market]] [[price]] after a large [[rise]]. | # A [[decline]] in a [[stock market]] [[price]] after a large [[rise]]. | ||
| + | |||
| + | '''Correction''', via the identical French from the Latin ''corrigĕre'' 'to make straight (again)', is an action to rectify, to make right a wrong. It may have the following meanings: | ||
| + | |||
| + | *To set straight an error, clarify a misunderstanding, undo resulting damage; e.g. a [[correction (newspaper)]] in a newspaper is the posting of the notice of a mistake that appeared in a past issue of a newspaper | ||
| + | *To rectify an illogical state, e.g. a market anomaly as in [[correction (stock market)]]. | ||
| + | *As a euphemism for [[punishment]], of various kinds, mainly physical; in institutional terminology specifically used for imprisonment, e.g. correctional facility (prison) or [[corrections]]. | ||
| + | *the various duties of a [[corrector]], a political/administrative office in classical Antiquity and still an ecclesiastical one in the Catholic Church and one in the temple. | ||
| + | *[[Correction (novel)]] - a novel (1975) by Austrian writer [[Thomas Bernhard]] | ||
| {{GFDL}} | {{GFDL}} | ||
Revision as of 05:43, 10 September 2009
|
Related e |
|
Featured: |
- The act of correcting.
- A substitution for an error or mistake.
- Punishment that is intended to rehabilitate an offender.
- An amount or quantity of something added or subtracted so as to correct.
- A decline in a stock market price after a large rise.
Correction, via the identical French from the Latin corrigĕre 'to make straight (again)', is an action to rectify, to make right a wrong. It may have the following meanings:
- To set straight an error, clarify a misunderstanding, undo resulting damage; e.g. a correction (newspaper) in a newspaper is the posting of the notice of a mistake that appeared in a past issue of a newspaper
- To rectify an illogical state, e.g. a market anomaly as in correction (stock market).
- As a euphemism for punishment, of various kinds, mainly physical; in institutional terminology specifically used for imprisonment, e.g. correctional facility (prison) or corrections.
- the various duties of a corrector, a political/administrative office in classical Antiquity and still an ecclesiastical one in the Catholic Church and one in the temple.
- Correction (novel) - a novel (1975) by Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard
Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "Correction" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.
