correction

The act of fixing a mistake, or a change that makes something right.

• This sentence needs a correction.
• The teacher marked my corrections in blue.
• Please check the date before making any correction.

How to use it: correction to something (I made a correction to the address.)

Similar words: fix, amendment

Common phrases: make a correction, spelling correction, minor correction

A word used in radio messages to announce that the speaker is replacing wrong information with the right information.

• The operator said, 'Correction: east, not west.'
• 'Arriving at six, correction, seven,' the pilot reported.
• She used 'correction' before giving the revised coordinates.

Common phrases: correction grid reference, correction last transmission