Skip to content
HOW TO PRONOUNCE

correction

/kɚˈɛkʃən/

Press play to hear how to pronounce correction.

American Pronunciation Guide · 1:03
Watch on YouTube ↗

What does correction mean?

noun

  1. The act of correcting.
  2. A substitution for an error or mistake.
  3. Punishment that is intended to rehabilitate an offender.
More meanings (3)

noun

  1. An amount or quantity of something added or subtracted so as to correct.
  2. A decline in a stock market price after a period of rises. Often operationally defined as a market value drop of 10% or more on some specific stock market index.
  3. a station's indication that previous information was incorrect and will continue with correct information from the last correct transmitted

Definitions regrouped for readability · CC BY-SA 4.0

IPA pronunciation

/kɚˈɛkʃən/

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

Pronunciation varies by speaker and region. About these dictionary pronunciations.

In the pages of books

See this word in context.

The marriage was most unhappy, and the Maestro Grandoni was suspected of using the fiddle-bow as an instrument of conjugal correction.
Henry JamesRoderick HudsonProject Gutenberg ebook #176
There is one point I should like to see a little improved, viz., the correction for the clock at shorter intervals.
Charles DarwinLife and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1Project Gutenberg ebook #2087
More book examples (3)
Whereby we are forbidden to inflict punishment with any other designe, than for correction of the offender, or direction of others.
Thomas HobbesLeviathanProject Gutenberg ebook #3207
Yet this work of correction may be assumed to be much more easy with respect to hearing than with respect to seeing.
Hans GrossCriminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and StudentsTranslated by Horace Meyer KallenProject Gutenberg ebook #1320
“These things,” he added, looking at Lydgate, “would be to me such relaxation as tow-picking is to prisoners in a house of correction.”
George EliotMiddlemarchProject Gutenberg ebook #145