<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>Something that is substituted or proposed for what is wrong or inaccurate; emendation.</li><li>The act of correcting.</li><li>Punishment intended to reform, improve, or rehabilitate; chastisement; reproof.</li><li>Usually corrections.</li><li>The various methods, as incarceration, parole, and probation, by which society deals with convicted offenders.</li><li>A quantity applied or other adjustment made in order to increase accuracy, as in the use of an instrument or the solution of a problem: A five degree correction will put the ship on course.</li><li>A reversal of the trend of stock prices, especially temporarily, as after a sharp advance or decline in the previous trading sessions.</li></ul>