Correction

Correction, via the identical French from the Latin corrig?re, is an action to rectify, to make right a wrong. It may have the following meanings:

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• To set straight an error, clarify a misunderstanding, undo resulting damage.
• To rectify a market anomaly: correction (stock market).
• As a euphemism for imprisonment, e.g. correctional facility.
• In Roman Catholicism, the various duties of a corrector, an ecclesiastical term.