corrigate

corrigate

English

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin corrigō, whence standard English words like corrigible, probably influenced by words like Danish korrigere and German korrigieren.

Verb

corrigate (third-person singular simple present corrigates, present participle corrigating, simple past and past participle corrigated)

1. (chiefly non-native speakers) To correct.
   • 1915, Hrolf von baron Dewitz, War's New Weapons: An Expert Analysis in Plain Language of the Weapons and Methods Used in the Present Great War, page 58:

     A third critic, and an alleged eye-witness at the front, corrigates all preceding guesses by announcing, with the air of finality, that the Austrians, not the Prussians, are the chaps who have placed the big guns at the front,  […]

   • 1949, Opuscula entomologica: Supplementum, volumes 10-15, page 221:

     The values are corrigated for air pressure and temperature and expressed as […] .

   • 1953, Yearbook (Aug. Bangs Boghandel), page 92:

     In the H. C. C. care has been taken to corrigate for this change of hue. In the colours the various hues of yellow, green, blue, red etc. may present themselves with different intensity or strength, when the hue-giving part of the reflected light has ...

   • 1977, Dansk naturhistorisk forening, Videnskabelige meddelelser fra Dansk naturhistorisk forening, voluems 140-141, page 73:

     In these groups tooth wear itself is insignificant, but great variation in tooth wear index occurs in spite of efforts to corrigate for variation in actual tooth size. This variation no doubt continues later and adds to other drawbacks of the method, ...

   • 2001, Stefan Wermter, David Willshaw, Emergent Neural Computational Architectures Based on Neuroscience: Towards Neuroscience-Inspired Computing, Springer Science & Business Media (→ISBN), page 207:

     Here further modifications are required to corrigate for example the loss of characteristic electrotonic length.

   • 2012, László Györfi, György Ottucsák, Harro Walk, Machine Learning for Financial Engineering, World Scientific (→ISBN), page 85:

     Note that, in this case, the investor has to rebalance his portfolio after each trading day to “corrigate” the daily price shifts of the invested stocks.