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1Correction fluid — can be written on after it has dried. A correction fluid is an opaque, white fluid applied to paper to mask errors in text. Once dried, it can be written over. It is typically packaged in small bottles, and the lid has an attached brush (or a… …
2correction — [kə rek′shən] n. [ME correccion < OFr correction < L correctio] 1. a correcting or being corrected 2. a change that corrects a mistake; change from wrong to right, or from abnormal to normal; emendation; rectification 3. the amount of… …
3correction — Reverse movement, usually downward, in the price of an individual stock, bond, commodity, or index. If prices have been rising on the market as a whole, and then fall dramatically, this is known as a correction within an upward trend. Antithesis… …
4correction Q — The correction applied to observed attitudes of Polaris to compensate for its displacement from the north celestial pole when obtaining latitudes by sextant. For example, in the Northern Hemisphere, the star Polaris (declination 89°10’N) is close …
5Error detection and correction — In mathematics, computer science, telecommunication, and information theory, error detection and correction has great practical importance in maintaining data (information) integrity across noisy channels and less than reliable storage… …
6Prism correction — Eye care professionals use prism correction as a component of some eyeglass prescriptions. A lens with prism correction displaces the image, which is used to treat muscular imbalance or other conditions (see vergence dysfunction) that cause… …
7Gamma correction — Gamma correction, gamma nonlinearity, gamma encoding, or often simply gamma, is the name of a nonlinear operation used to code and decode luminance or tristimulus values in video or still image systems. [cite book | title = Digital Video and HDTV …
8Flat-field correction — is a technique used to improve quality in digital imaging. The goal is to remove artifacts from 2 D images that are caused by variations in the pixel to pixel sensitivity of the detector and/or by distortions in the optical path. It is a standard …
9Q-correction — That applied to the observed altitudes of the Polaris star. The value of this correction is given in the Air Almanac, and it is applied to the Polaris altitude to obtain the true latitude. In the Northern Hemisphere the star Polaris (Declination… …
10altimeter correction — The amount of height that must be added to the height indicated by an altimeter to obtain true height above the sea level. The altimeter is set to the standard altimeter setting …
