Correction
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'''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.
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