Correction may refer to: * A euphemism for

punishment Punishment, commonly, is the imposition of an undesirable or unpleasant outcome upon a group or individual, meted out by an authority—in contexts ranging from child discipline to criminal law—as a response and deterrent to a particular acti ...

Correction (newspaper) A correction in a newspaper consists of posting a public notice about a typographical error or factual mistake in a previously published article. Newspapers usually have specific policies for readers to report factual errors. Generally, this requ ...

, the posting of a notice of a mistake in a past issue of a newspaper *

Correction (stock market) A market correction is a rapid change in the nominal price of a commodity, after a barrier to free trade has been removed and the free market establishes a new equilibrium price. It may also refer to several of these single-commodity corrections ...

, in financial markets, a short-term price decline * ''Correction'' (novel), a 1975 novel by Thomas Bernhard * a perturbation to an equation in

perturbation theory (quantum mechanics) In quantum mechanics, perturbation theory is a set of approximation schemes directly related to mathematical perturbation for describing a complicated quantum system in terms of a simpler one. The idea is to start with a simple system for whic ...

** radiative correction ***

oblique correction In particle physics, an oblique correction refers to a particular type of radiative correction to the electroweak sector of the Standard Model. Oblique corrections are defined in four- fermion scattering processes, ( + → &nbs ...

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nonoblique correction In four-fermion scattering processes of particle physics, a nonoblique correction, also called a direct correction, refers to a radiative correction of type + → + in the electroweak sector of the Standard Mode ...

loop correction Loop or LOOP may refer to: Brands and enterprises * Loop (mobile), a Bulgarian virtual network operator and co-founder of Loop Live * Loop, clothing, a company founded by Carlos Vasquez in the 1990s and worn by Digable Planets * Loop Mobile, an ...

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