Code and Correction

noun

• A set of rules or principles or laws (especially written ones.
  • synonyms: codification
• A coding system used for transmitting messages requiring brevity or secrecy.
• Computer science. ( the symbolic arrangement of data or instructions in a computer program or the set of such instructions)
  • synonyms: computer code

verb

• Attach a code to.
  • usage: "Code the pieces with numbers so that you can identify them later"
• Convert ordinary language into code.
  • usage: "We should encode the message for security reasons"
  • synonyms: encipher, cipher, cypher, encrypt, inscribe, write in code

• (n.) A body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the rules of law to be specifically applied by the courts are set forth in systematic form; a compilation of laws by public authority; a digest.
• (n.) Any system of rules or regulations relating to one subject; as, the medical code, a system of rules for the regulation of the professional conduct of physicians; the naval code, a system of rules for making communications at sea means of signals.

noun

• The act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right.
  • synonyms: rectification
• A quantity that is added or subtracted in order to increase the accuracy of a scientific measure.
  • synonyms: fudge factor
• Something substituted for an error.
• A rebuke for making a mistake.
  • synonyms: chastening, chastisement
• A drop in stock market activity or stock prices following a period of increases.
  • usage: "market runups are invariably followed by a correction"
• The act of punishing.
  • usage: "the offenders deserved the harsh discipline they received"
  • synonyms: discipline
• Treatment of a specific defect.
  • usage: "the correction of his vision with eye glasses"

• (n.) The act of correcting or making that right which was wrong; change for the better; amendment; rectification, as of an erroneous statement.
• (n.) An allowance made for inaccuracy in an instrument; as, chronometer correction; compass correction.
• (n.) 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.
• (n.) The act of reproving or punishing or that which is intended to rectify or to cure faults; punishment; discipline; chastisement.
• (n.) Abatement of noxious qualities; the counteraction of what is inconvenient or hurtful in its effects; as, the correction of acidity in the stomach.

Correction is a correction is a drop usually a sudden and substantial one of 10% or more in the price of an individual stock, bond, commodity, index, or the market as a whole. Market analysts anticipate market corrections when security prices are high in relation to company earnings and other indicators of economic health. When a market correction is greater than 10% and the prices do not begin to recover promptly, some analysts point to the correction as the beginning of a bear market.