Correction in a sentence as a noun

Biologically, there are many stages where not having DNA error correction could be more catastrophic than usual.

I am intimately aware of how XmlHttpRequest came into existence, having been closely involved with its birth, so if someone has some correction to add, please add it.

This technique uses forward error correction to compensate for packet loss, resulting in higher effective throughput over lossy links.

The key point: "ASI [Automatic Semicolon Insertion] is an error correction procedure.

The inevitable correction that has to happen in the investment markets in China may not bring about a recession, but it can't help but bring about a change of investment priorities that may make China look less amazing for a while.

It's been speculated by the Barton lab that the base excision repair error-correction mechanism actively surveys DNA by injecting electrical current into the DNA and 'searching' for lesions which disrupt the conductivity of DNA.

I'm sure you can dig up a few examples of things that he said which were incorrect, but very few of those will not have been followed by a correction at some point, and either way your insinuations seem to go beyond "being wrong some of the time".HN is incredibly fortunate to count members like 'tptacek as part of its community.

I'd encourage people to think of this less as "Wow, she misinterpreted a series of options and got progressively father from her goal state until it was unrecoverable; sucks to be her" to "This is computers as perceived by people who do not make a living making computers work, and we should anticipate them not always understanding our applications and design them to facilitate understanding when possible and make correction easy when not, to the maximum extent possible.

Correction definitions

noun

the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right

See also: rectification

noun

a quantity that is added or subtracted in order to increase the accuracy of a scientific measure

noun

something substituted for an error

noun

a rebuke for making a mistake

See also: chastening chastisement

noun

a drop in stock market activity or stock prices following a period of increases; "market runups are invariably followed by a correction"

noun

the act of punishing; "the offenders deserved the harsh discipline they received"

See also: discipline

noun

treatment of a specific defect; "the correction of his vision with eye glasses"