CORRECTIONS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does corrections mean? 

• CORRECTIONS (noun)
  The noun CORRECTIONS has 2 senses:

1. the department of local government that is responsible for managing the treatment of convicted offenders

2. the social control of offenders through a system of imprisonment and rehabilitation and probation and parole

  Familiarity information: CORRECTIONS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORRECTIONS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The department of local government that is responsible for managing the treatment of convicted offenders

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

corrections; department of corrections

Context example:

for a career in corrections turn to the web site of the New Jersey Department of Corrections

Hypernyms ("corrections" is a kind of...):

department of local government; local department (a permanent department created to perform the work of a local government)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The social control of offenders through a system of imprisonment and rehabilitation and probation and parole

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("corrections" is a kind of...):

social control (control exerted (actively or passively) by group action)

 Context examples 

It is more stringent than other mutiple testing corrections and thereby, will allow very few false positives.

(Family-Wise Error Rate, NCI Thesaurus)

The act of making necessary corrections or modifications.

(Adjustment, NCI Thesaurus)

A statistical method used for multiple testing corrections to control the expected proportion of false positives (Type I error) among rejected tests or hypotheses.

(False Discovery Rate, NCI Thesaurus)

I find likewise that your printer has been so careless as to confound the times, and mistake the dates, of my several voyages and returns; neither assigning the true year, nor the true month, nor day of the month: and I hear the original manuscript is all destroyed since the publication of my book; neither have I any copy left: however, I have sent you some corrections, which you may insert, if ever there should be a second edition: and yet I cannot stand to them; but shall leave that matter to my judicious and candid readers to adjust it as they please.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

A statistical method used for multiple testing corrections to control the expected proportion of false positives (Type I eror) among rejected tests or hypotheses.

(Family-Wise Error Rate, NCI Thesaurus)

It is less stringent than other mutiple testing corrections and thereby, will allow a percentage of false positives.

(False Discovery Rate, NCI Thesaurus)