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correctant

correctant noun: something that serves to correct something else.

Noun

correctant (plural correctants)

  1. Something that serves to correct something else.
    • It is not only a correctant of the salicylic acid, but also the best adjuvant we could find.1887, The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery, page 176
    • Consequently, formative feedback serves as a correctant, and it can produce rapid changes in behavior in contrast to the more tedious process of using shaping techniques with motivational feedback […]2013, Charles M. Reigeluth, Instructional Design Theories and Models, page 427

Forms of correctant

pluralcorrectants

Questions about correctant

What does correctant mean?
Correctant means something that serves to correct something else.
What part of speech is correctant?
Correctant is a noun.
What is the plural of correctant?
The plural of correctant is correctants.

Words near correctant in the dictionary

  1. correct me if I'm wrong
  2. correcta
  3. correctability
  4. correctable
  5. correctamundo
  6. correctant
  7. correctants
  8. correcte
  9. corrected
  10. corrected time
  11. corrected times

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