correction line

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correction line - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Correction \Cor*rec"tion\ (k?r-r?k"sh?n), n. [L. correctio: cf.
     F. correction.]
     1. The act of correcting, or making that right which was
        wrong; change for the better; amendment; rectification, as
        of an erroneous statement.
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              The due correction of swearing, rioting, neglect of
              God's word, and other scandalouss vices. --Strype.
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     2. The act of reproving or punishing, or that which is
        intended to rectify or to cure faults; punishment;
        discipline; chastisement.
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              Correction and instruction must both work
              Ere this rude beast will profit.      --Shak.
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     3. That which is substituted in the place of what is wrong;
        an emendation; as, the corrections on a proof sheet should
        be set in the margin.
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     4. Abatement of noxious qualities; the counteraction of what
        is inconvenient or hurtful in its effects; as, the
        correction of acidity in the stomach.
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     5. An allowance made for inaccuracy in an instrument; as,
        chronometer correction; compass correction.
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     Correction line (Surv.), a parallel used as a new base line
        in laying out township in the government lands of the
        United States. The adoption at certain intervals of a
        correction line is necessitated by the convergence of of
        meridians, and the statute requirement that the townships
        must be squares.
  
     House of correction, a house where disorderly persons are
        confined; a bridewell.
  
     Under correction, subject to correction; admitting the
        possibility of error.
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