correctant
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[edit]Noun
[edit]correctant (plural correctants)
- Something that serves to correct something else.
- 1887, The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery, page 176:
- It is not only a correctant of the salicylic acid, but also the best adjuvant we could find.
- 2013, Charles M. Reigeluth, Instructional Design Theories and Models, page 427:
- Consequently, formative feedback serves as a correctant, and it can produce rapid changes in behavior in contrast to the more tedious process of using shaping techniques with motivational feedback […]