What is "corrective"

Usage examples of "corrective".

In fact, a blind ophthalmologist is not much good to anyone, but it was up to him to inform the health authorities, to warn them of this situation which might turn into a national catastrophe, nothing more nor less, of a form of blindness hitherto unknown, with every appearance of being highly contagious, and which, to all appearances, manifested itself without the previous existence of earlier pathological symptoms of an inflammatory, infectious or degenerative nature, as he was able to verify in the blind man who had come to consult him in his surgery, or as had been confirmed in his own case, a touch of myopia, a slight astigmatism, all so mild that he had decided, in the meantime, not to use corrective lenses.

Now that I understand some women are simply too greedy to close their throats, I have taken corrective measures.

Americans, liberals prattle on and on about the right to dissent as the true mark of patriotism and claim their unrelenting kvetching is a needed corrective to jingoism.

The trajectory planners back in Houston had sent corrective burn parameters chattering up the line to Ares, and the MS-II stage's maneuvering propulsion system—two modified Lunar Module engines—had applied a hefty velocity change of twenty-five feet per second.

These public affections, combined with manners, are required sometimes as supplements, sometimes as correctives, always as aids to law.

In old establishments various correctives have been found for their aberrations from theory.

Your skill, if you had any, would be well employed to find out indirect correctives and controls upon this perilous trust.

The laser radar system tracked and measured the target, then also sampled the atmosphere at the target and sent corrective and focusing instructions to the deformable mirror.

The brilliant Robotech Defense Force flier was slender, wore blue-tinted aviator glasses-with corrective lenses-and dyed his hair blue in keeping with the current fad for wild colors.

Does corrective surgery on them more than deserve, so their modern circumcisions won't arouse suspicion.

It does seem, however, that when the opinions of masses of merely average men are everywhere become or becoming the dominant power, the counterpoise and corrective to that tendency would be, the more and more pronounced individuality of those who stand on the higher eminences of thought.

I don't think we'll be rewarded with a sense of genuine precision until we get as close as possible to a kind of beneficially corrective infinite regress.

An optometer is an instrument for measuring refractive errors in eyes-in order that corrective lenses may be prescribed.

He needs massive corrective surgery, regrowths, an amniotic tank, months of subjective in slowtime.

Cooper's corrective procedures would by necessity have been made only more extensive and painful after Walter's two earlier surgeries in Germany.