corral | (noun) a pen for cattle | Synonyms: cattle pen, cow pen |
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corrasion | (noun) erosion by friction | Synonyms: abrasion, attrition, detrition |
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correction | (noun) the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right | Synonyms: rectification |
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(noun) treatment of a specific defect | - |
(noun) the act of disciplining | Synonyms: discipline |
(noun) a drop in stock market activity or stock prices following a period of increases | - |
(noun) a rebuke for making a mistake | Synonyms: chastening, chastisement |
(noun) something substituted for an error | - |
(noun) a quantity that is added or subtracted in order to increase the accuracy of a scientific measure | Synonyms: fudge factor |
corrections | (noun) the social control of offenders through a system of imprisonment and rehabilitation and probation and parole | - |
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(noun) the department of local government that is responsible for managing the treatment of convicted offenders | Synonyms: department of corrections |
correctitude | (noun) correct or appropriate behavior | Synonyms: properness, propriety |
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corrective | (noun) a device for treating injury or disease | Synonyms: restorative |
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correctness | (noun) conformity to fact or truth | Synonyms: rightness |
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(noun) the quality of conformity to social expectations | - |
correlate | (noun) either of two or more related or complementary variables | Synonyms: correlative |
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correlation | (noun) a statistic representing how closely two variables co-vary; it can vary from -1 (perfect negative correlation) through 0 (no correlation) to +1 (perfect positive correlation) | Synonyms: coefficient of correlation, correlation coefficient |
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(noun) a statistical relation between two or more variables such that systematic changes in the value of one variable are accompanied by systematic changes in the other | Synonyms: correlational statistics |
(noun) a reciprocal relation between two or more things | Synonyms: correlativity |
correlative | (noun) either of two or more related or complementary variables | Synonyms: correlate |
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correlativity | (noun) a reciprocal relation between two or more things | Synonyms: correlation |
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correspondence | (noun) similarity by virtue of corresponding | Synonyms: parallelism |
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(noun) compatibility of observations | Synonyms: agreement |
(noun) (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane | Synonyms: balance, symmetricalness, symmetry |
(noun) communication by the exchange of letters | - |
(noun) the relation of corresponding in degree or size or amount | Synonyms: commensurateness, proportionateness |
correspondent | (noun) someone who communicates by means of letters | Synonyms: letter writer |
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(noun) a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media | Synonyms: newswriter |
corrida | (noun) a Spanish or Portuguese or Latin American spectacle; a matador baits and (usually) kills a bull in an arena before many spectators | Synonyms: bullfight |
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corridor | (noun) an enclosed passageway; rooms usually open onto it | - |
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corrie | (noun) a steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain; may contain a lake | Synonyms: cirque, cwm |
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corrigenda | (noun) a list of printing errors in a book along with their corrections | - |
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corrigendum | (noun) a printer's error; to be corrected | - |
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corroboration | (noun) confirmation that some fact or statement is true through the use of documentary evidence | Synonyms: certification, documentation |
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corroding | (noun) erosion by chemical action | Synonyms: corrosion, erosion |
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corrosion | (noun) erosion by chemical action | Synonyms: corroding, erosion |
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(noun) a state of deterioration in metals caused by oxidation or chemical action | - |
corrosive | (noun) a substance having the tendency to cause corrosion (such a strong acids or alkali) | - |
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corrugation | (noun) the act of shaping into parallel ridges and grooves | - |
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(noun) a ridge on a corrugated surface | - |
corruptibility | (noun) the capability of being corrupted | - |
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corruption | (noun) destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity | Synonyms: subversion |
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(noun) inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by committing a felony) | - |
(noun) lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain | Synonyms: corruptness |
(noun) moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles | Synonyms: degeneracy, depravation, depravity, putrefaction |
(noun) decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation) | - |
(noun) in a state of progressive putrefaction | Synonyms: putrescence, putridness, rottenness |
corruptness | (noun) lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain | Synonyms: corruption |
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(noun) the state of being corrupt | - |