correction

Universal Words noun, exclamation noun 1 [C] a change that makes sth more accurate than it was before: I've made a few small corrections to your report. * The paper had to publish a correction to the story. 2 [U] the act or process of correcting sth: There are some programming errors that need correction. 3 [U] (old-fashioned) punishment: the correction of young offenders exclamation (informal) used when you want to correct sth that you have just said: I don't know. Correction-I do know, but I'm not going to tell you.