CORRECTIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does corrective mean? 

• CORRECTIVE (noun)
  The noun CORRECTIVE has 1 sense:

1. a device for treating injury or disease

  Familiarity information: CORRECTIVE used as a noun is very rare.

• CORRECTIVE (adjective)
  The adjective CORRECTIVE has 2 senses:

1. designed to promote discipline

2. tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a normal condition

  Familiarity information: CORRECTIVE used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORRECTIVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A device for treating injury or disease

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

corrective; restorative

Hypernyms ("corrective" is a kind of...):

device (an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "corrective"):

pack (a sheet or blanket (either dry or wet) to wrap around the body for its therapeutic effect)

face pack; pack (a cream that cleanses and tones the skin)

pick-me-up; pickup (anything with restorative powers)

prosthesis; prosthetic device (corrective consisting of a replacement for a part of the body)

• CORRECTIVE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Designed to promote discipline

Synonyms:

corrective; disciplinal; disciplinary

Context example:

the mother was stern and disciplinary

Similar:

nonindulgent; strict (characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint)

Derivation:

correct (censure severely)

correct (punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a normal condition

Context example:

corrective lenses

Similar:

bettering (changing for the better)

Derivation:

correct (treat a defect)

correct (alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard)

correct (adjust for)

 Context examples 

Issue associated with user facility not receiving adequate service documentation, guidelines, or recommendations to perform preventive and corrective maintenance and performance assurance checks.

(Lack of Maintenance Documentation or Guidelines, Food and Drug Administration)

A corrective lens that is designed to be implanted within the eye capsule to replace the natural lens.

(Intraocular Lens Implant Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

Jerk nystagmus has a slow phase in one direction followed by a corrective fast phase in the opposite direction, and is usually caused by central or peripheral vestibular dysfunction.

(Nystagmus, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

If corrective measures are not taken rapidly, this condition progresses to sudden death.

(History of Resuscitated Cardiac Arrest, NCI Thesaurus)

A corrective, cosmetic, or therapeutic lens placed on the cornea of the eye.

(Contact Lens, NCI Thesaurus)

If you need corrective lenses, you may be able to choose between contacts or glasses.

(Eye Wear, NIH)

Issue associated with error messages that are undecipherable or which fail to prompt the user toward appropriate corrective action.

(Issue with Displayed Error Message, Food and Drug Administration)

Issue associated with the failure of pacing device for a limited period of time, following which the item recovers its ability to perform its required function without being subjected to any external corrective action.

(Intermittent Pacing Medical Device Problem, Food and Drug Administration)

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous in such high-wrought felicity; and she went to her room, and grew steadfast and fearless in the thankfulness of her enjoyment.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Issue associated with the failure to deliver shock for a limited period of time, following which the item recovers its ability to perform its required function without being subjected to any external corrective action.

(Intermittent Shock Medical Device Problem, Food and Drug Administration)