corrector
Americannoun
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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
In this the principle is that several shells, fired with the same corrector setting, but at different elevations, will burst in air at different points along one line.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" by Various
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