(historical) A kind of residential penitentiary facility, built after the passing of the Elizabethan Poor Law (1601), where those who were "unwilling to work", including vagrants and beggars, were set to work.

plural of house of correction

(chiefly US, formal, euphemistic) A prison, reformatory, or similar institution in which people are confined for the purpose of punishment and/or social rehabilitation.

Alternative form of corrections officer

Alternative form of corrections officer

plural of correctional facility

plural of correctional institution

A factor that is multiplied with the result of an equation to correct for a known amount of systematic error.

(Canada) A place where a north–south grid road jogs to correct for the northward convergence of meridians.

plural of correction line