CORRECTION

noun Date: 14th century the action or an instance of correcting: as, amendment , rectification, rebuke , punishment , a bringing into conformity with a standard, neutralization , counteraction , a decline in market price or business activity following and counteracting a rise, 3. something substituted in place of what is wrong , a quantity applied by way of correcting (as for adjustment of an instrument), the treatment and rehabilitation of offenders through a program involving penal custody, parole, and probation, ~al adjective