corrector
Americannoun
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correctors
plural
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a person or thing that corrects issues or concerns.
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a cosmetic product designed to obscure or reduce color differences in the skin.
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There are lots of posture corrector straps, back braces and chairs that promise to change your life but "you just need to be moving around in the day".
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2025
Guided by KHAOS, Carl futzed with the blind-spot corrector on Hayden’s Goggles, which made Hayden take a solid noggin-thumper in the hallway.
From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2020
If they chucked in a little foundation and some colour corrector for the weekend – well, I wouldn’t say no.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 13, 2018
The second microscope includes a chromatic-aberration corrector, a complex assembly of magnetic and electric lenses intended to remove blurriness caused by variations in electron energy.
From Nature ● Jul. 10, 2013
Years afterwards, in an application for the title of bookseller to the queen, he stated that he had been for some years corrector for the press in Wild Court.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" by Various
While there are lots of braces and posture correctors on the market to wear on the go, the chiropractors we spoke with don’t recommend relying on one.
From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2018
Visual correctors might tighten, swell or numb your skin.
From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2012
Blemishes, meanwhile, face the likes of healing gels, blemish balm creams and dark-spot correctors.
From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2011
“But now the paper is nought, the composers boyes, and the correctors unlearned.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 7, 2011
By choice he would have made a good job of it and abolished the quadrantal correctors as well; but he judged he had done mischief enough to secure his ends, as it was.
From Alias the Lone Wolf by Louis Joseph Vance
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