Correction 1791626 224785129 2008-07-10T12:05:53Z 125.24.29.48 more detail '''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. {{disambig}} [[de:Korrektur]] [[fr:Correction]] [[pt:Corretor (desambiguação)]]