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 ...
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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
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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
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''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 ...
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radiative correction
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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
+ → +
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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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Corrections (disambiguation)
Corrections is society's handling of persons after their conviction of a criminal offense.
Corrections may also refer to:
* ''Corrections'' (film), a 2008 Australian short
* ''The Corrections'', a 2001 novel by Jonathan Franzen
* The Correction ...
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Corrector
A corrector (English plural ''correctors'', Latin plural ''correctores'') is a person or object practicing correction, usually by removing or rectifying errors.
The word is originally a Roman title, ''corrector'', derived from the Latin verb ''c ...
, a political/administrative office in classical Antiquity and some religions
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