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over-coˈrrection
[over- 29 b.]
An excessive correction; a correction which results in error in the opposite direction; spec. (a) Optics, correction of a lens to such a degree as to produce the opposite aberration; (b) Linguistics = hypercorrection.
1885T. Longmore Illustr. Optical Manual (ed. 3) ii. 43 If there be no over-correction, but the concave lenses ordered are found to be only equivalent to the excess of refraction, or, in other words, to the degree of M[yopia] which they have been calculated to neutralise, [etc.]. 1947E. H. Sturtevant Introd. Linguistic Sci. viii. 80 Sometimes..he has caught himself creating such forms as [dju·, tju·] for do and two. Such ‘over-corrections’ have been observed very often in many languages. 1957F. & R. Lockridge Practise to Deceive (1959) x. 137 That was prejudice, to be corrected. But, then, there was the danger of over-correction. 1961F. G. Cassidy Jamaica Talk iii. 46 All too easily this attempt leads to what is called ‘over-correction’, for he puts sounds into places where they do not belong in Standard. 1966A. Battersby Math. in Managem. vii. 185 Fifteen weeks after the sales increased, the rate of production at the factory had surged up to an increase of 45%; forty weeks later it had swung back in an over-correction. 1975M. Ruben Contact Lens Pract. ii. 19/1 In hypermetropia associated with convergence,..overcorrection with a contact lens can be just as effective as spectacle lenses. |