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corrigate

corrigate verb: to correct.

Verb

corrigate (third-person singular simple present corrigates, present participle corrigating, simple past and past participle corrigated)

  1. (chiefly non-native speakers' English) To correct.
    • A third critic, and an alleged eye-witness at the front, corrigates all preceding guesses by announcing, with the air of finality, that the Austrians, not the Prussians, are the chaps who have placed the big guns at the front, […]1915, Hrolf von baron Dewitz, War's New Weapons: An Expert Analysis in Plain Language of the Weapons and Methods Used in the Present Great War, page 58
    • The values are corrigated for air pressure and temperature and expressed as […].1949, Opuscula entomologica: Supplementum, volumes 10-15, page 221

Examples of corrigate in a sentence

  • C. care has been taken to corrigate for this change of hue.1953, Yearbook (Aug. Bangs Boghandel), page 92
  • In these groups tooth wear itself is insignificant, but great variation in tooth wear index occurs in spite of efforts to corrigate for variation in actual tooth size.1977, Dansk naturhistorisk forening, Videnskabelige meddelelser fra Dansk naturhistorisk forening, voluems 140-141, page 73
  • Here further modifications are required to corrigate for example the loss of characteristic electrotonic length.2001, Stefan Wermter, David Willshaw, Emergent Neural Computational Architectures Based on Neuroscience: Towards Neuroscience-Inspired...
  • Note that, in this case, the investor has to rebalance his portfolio after each trading day to “corrigate” the daily price shifts of the invested stocks.2012, László Györfi, György Ottucsák, Harro Walk, Machine Learning for Financial Engineering, World Scientific, →ISBN, page 85:

Forms of corrigate

third-person singular presentcorrigates
present participlecorrigating
past participlecorrigated
pastcorrigated

Origin of corrigate

Ultimately Latin corrigō, whence standard English words like corrigible, probably influenced by words like Danish korrigere, French corriger and German korrigieren; see -ate (verb-forming suffix)

Questions about corrigate

What does corrigate mean?
Corrigate means to correct.
How do you use corrigate in a sentence?
C. care has been taken to corrigate for this change of hue.
What part of speech is corrigate?
Corrigate is a verb.
What is the past tense of corrigate?
The past tense of corrigate is corrigated.

Words near corrigate in the dictionary

  1. Corrientes
  2. Corrier
  3. corries
  4. corrigan
  5. corrigans
  6. corrigate
  7. corrigated
  8. corrigates
  9. corrigating
  10. corrigative
  11. corrigen

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