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undercorrecting

undercorrecting is the present participle and gerund of undercorrect.

Meaning of undercorrect

Verb

undercorrect (third-person singular simple present undercorrects, present participle undercorrecting, simple past and past participle undercorrected)

  1. to correct insufficiently
    • It has long been known that, if range restriction is indirect rather than direct, this formula will undercorrect.

Questions about undercorrecting

What is undercorrecting the present participle and gerund of?
Undercorrecting is the present participle and gerund of undercorrect.

Words near undercorrecting in the dictionary

  1. undercoordinated
  2. undercoordination
  3. undercoordinations
  4. undercorrect
  5. undercorrected
  6. undercorrecting
  7. undercorrection
  8. undercorrections
  9. undercorrects
  10. undercount
  11. undercounted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: undercorrecting (page history and authors); undercorrect (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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