Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An error to be corrected, especially a printer's error.
- n. A list of errors in a book along with their corrections.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Something, especially a word or phrase in print, that is to be corrected or altered.
Wiktionary
- n. An error that is to be corrected in a printed work after publication.
- n. usually plural A list of errors in a printed work as a separate page of corrections, known as an errata page.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A fault or error to be corrected.
- n. A correction of an error, especially in a printed document.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a printer's error; to be corrected
Etymologies
- From Latin corrigendum, nominative neuter singular of corrigendus, the future passive participle (gerundive) of corrigō ("I correct"). (Wiktionary)
- Latin, neuter gerundive of corrigere, to correct; see correct. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“It is therefore obvious that this error should be corrected (via some kind of corrigendum to the WG2 report perhaps), but it is important to realise that this doesn't mean that Himalayan glaciers are doing just fine.”
“The word "corrigendum" usually means a list of errors and their corrections. are sometimes issued by ISO.”
“Good published a corrigendum to one of his previous papers.”
“Mumbai police today submitted a corrigendum before the MCOCA court stating that the demand made in the remand application to verify links between Indian Mujahideen and Lashkar-e-Taiba was an error on their part, a senior crime branch officer said.”
“Again, the writ of corrigendum and apology further indexes the print media preparedness to create the enabling environment to work and protect the integrity and privacy of the government and every right-thinking member of the society generally.”
“Look at a standard accepted by NAture in the Mann corrigendum.”
Risk Management Solutions Ltd and the 37 Professors « Climate Audit
“In 2004 Mann, Bradley, and Hughes published a corrigendum to their 1998 article, correcting a number of mistakes in the online supplementary information that accompanied their article but leaving the actual results unchanged.”
von Storch and Zorita blog on the Hockey Stick « Climate Audit
“The Hockey Team did issue a corrigendum, though they do not admit it on their site.”
“Neither Birffa nor Science felt that a corrigendum was required to provide a correct identification of the data actually used in his calculation.”
“In similar circumstances, I would be proactive and seek reassurance from my coauthors that the matter was not a problem; if it was a problem, I would request that they issue a corrigendum voluntarily.”
When is an Upper Confidence Limit a Lower Confidence Limit? « Climate Audit
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘corrigendum’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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phrontistery - c
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
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web
maven, logolepsy, apperception, traduce, caldera, putative, lurid, avant-garde, teleology, heuristic, jugular, manducate and 13 more...
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Incorrectum
Mistakes, Errors and Accidents.
nihilartikel, solecism, bevue, corrigendum, acyrology, cacoepy, fido, hamartithia, jeofail, mésalliance, mumpsimus, pseudochronism and 63 more...
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Slip Slidin' Away
Slip Slidin' Away, slide, slide guitar, slidden, slid, slip-slided, backslidden, slider, tornado slide, slide rule, slipstick, sliding scale and 29 more...
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nachchba's Words
stentorian, blasé, ennui, concinnity, melee, photokeratitis, skiffle, refulgence, mongrel, fakir, caid, eudaimonia and 215 more...
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NTDW1
template, modal, sublingual, tandem, polycentric, septuagenarian, token, irrevocable, denotive, augural, aberrant, phlebotomy and 1188 more...
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Words of Whimsy & Grace
abecedary, addendum, ampersand, anachronism, avuncular, balderdash, barnacle, befuddle, behemoth, bejeebers, blabbermouth, blatherskite and 465 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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persnickety parlance
behoove, ebullient, insouciant, insipient, froth, quandary, quixotic, tendril, maktub, furrow, furl, anastrophe and 1076 more...
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random
voluptuary, noxious, plenitude, quotidian, mired, unregenerate, insolent, interlocutor, impudent, commiserate, ineluctable, dialectic and 31 more...
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inamilaee's Words
erstwhile, sycophant, vernacular, vituperative, vitriol, vociferous, veracious, pernicious, idyllic, catatonic, catharsis, inchoate and 19 more...
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words about words
idioglossia, lexicon, parapraxis, colloquialism, synecdoche, metonymy, diaeresis, zeugma, mnemonic, amanuensis, anacoluthon, palindrome and 78 more...
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