noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
correction fluid
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
small
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Make small corrections to achieve heading as necessary.
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The smaller correction could take too long.
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Horowitz's Barber I would like to point out a small correction for your readers.
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This means a number of small corrections to achieve a performance change in terms of either Pitch or Roll attitudes.
■ NOUN
error
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Dictionary look-up methods give impressive error correction but require much greater storage and computation.
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The protocol incorporates yet another type of error correction and aspects of handling files.
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A licence agreement may specifically prohibit error correction so that all this provision does is to raise a presumption in favour of the lawful user.
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This is another interesting theoretical point, but probably of little consequence as far as error correction is concerned.
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This gives a total of 16 out of 36 which could be solved using standard error correction algorithms.
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The dictionary method gives much greater error correction performance, with greater storage requirements and computational cost.
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It doesn't have error correction or data compression and for £249, I'd expect these features to be standard.
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Such errors were studied, along with traditional error correction techniques.
factor
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A correction factor was then applied, as before, to gross up for the entire Scotch Whisky industry.
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Finally the relevant torque correction factor is found from Table 5.2.
■ VERB
make
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And feminist psychologists are still predominantly concerned with making egalitarian corrections to traditional psychological theories, rather than working with their uncertainties.
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The meeting was called to answer criticisms and make mid-course corrections .
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Check heading when compass has stabilised. 8. Make small corrections to achieve heading as necessary.
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Ask them to compare their papers in pairs and to make any corrections they think are needed.
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The only other study that made corrections for pyloric loss and duodenogastric reflux came to conclusions that are the same as ours.
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Edit: Make any corrections to the text.
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Though to be really professional she should make corrections in red as she did in the children's books.
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I can't solve this by confessing that I didn't call Chuck Huckelberry in time to make a correction .
need
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A person may develop bad habits that need correction .
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A decreasing number of self-corrections, showing that unconsciously made miscues are often semantically acceptable and do not need correction .
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Capitalism needed the house of correction , and somehow it magically came into being as a result.
require
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If the original statement requires correction it is presumably necessary to seek leave to amend although the rules are silent on this.
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Occasionally this requires specific correction - for example, with an n-methyl d-aspartate receptor blocker such as ketamine.
use
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Any means of correction may be used but all corrections should be neat and unobtrusive.
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So - in controlled airspace, on airways, for example, use the 30 degree correction for 5° off track.
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This gives a total of 16 out of 36 which could be solved using standard error correction algorithms.
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A posting error can be corrected by using a correction or void key. 7.
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Additional information can often be used to increase correction accuracy and speed, for example by studying the sources of errors.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Corrections should be pencilled into the margins.
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It just needs a few corrections before we can send it to the printer.
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My essay was covered in corrections in red ink.
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My Spanish teacher will point out errors, but we have to make the corrections ourselves.
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That will basically cover fifty... correction eighty percent of all charges.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After a correction , check roll attitude and balance.
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After all, a 30 percent correction in October 1987 had almost no impact on real economic growth.
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Both geometric correction and image registration involve lengthy and time-consuming operations, taking several hours on a minicomputer.
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Capitalism needed the house of correction , and somehow it magically came into being as a result.
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Massachusetts closed its traditional, prison-like juvenile corrections institutions and moved its juvenile offenders into small, community-based group homes.
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Some Wall Street analysts think that the high-flying networking stocks are due for a correction , but they are not unanimous.
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The consensus expected some sort of correction in the stock market, with prices moving higher later in the year.
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Unfortunately, this trim correction may not be correct when the model leaves the ground.