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self-correcting

or self-cor·rec·tive

[ self-kuh-rek-ting, self- ]

adjective

  1. automatically adjusting to or correcting mistakes, malfunctions, etc.:

    a self-correcting mechanism.



self-correcting

adjective

  1. capable of correcting itself without external aid
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Other Words From

  • self-cor·rection noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of self-correcting1

First recorded in 1935–40
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Example Sentences

The story of Gliese 581g highlights how hard exoplanet-hunting is, and how science at its best is self-correcting.

At least since the last world war, most of the developed world has lived with the idea that popular suffrage is self-correcting.

But this self-correcting motive was presently displaced by a motive of a different sort.

This is a system of six compound-bars self-correcting for temperature.

"Miss Cora Dares," Pauline continued, with a self-correcting precision.

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