Free from error; true; accurate. / With good manners; well behaved; conforming with accepted standards of behaviour.

(India) Used to indicate acknowledgement or acceptance.

A correct response.

(transitive) To make something that was wrong become right; to remove error from. / (by extension, transitive) To grade (examination papers). / (transitive) To inform (someone) of their error.

simple past tense and past participle of correct

The act of correcting. / A substitution for an error or mistake. / (chiefly in the plural) Punishment that is intended to rehabilitate an offender.

Of, pertaining to, or intended for correction. / (chiefly US) Of or pertaining to the imprisonment or rehabilitation of convicted criminals.

Able to be corrected

(obsolete) Possibly a medicinal herb.

present participle of correct