CORRECTOR is a Latin word, meaning he who practices correction (see that disambiguation page, also for etymology). In stock market terminology, a correction is a short-term reduction in stock market price or activity. ...
Apart from the general sense of anyone who corrects mistakes etc., it has been used as, or part of (some commonly shortened again to Corrector), various specific titles and offices, sometimes quite distant from this original meaning.
A Corrector originally was an extraordinal official, send by the higher authorities (especially the state, ?e.g. the Emperor) to check on and take over from lower -especially municipal- officials against whom serious suspicions were pending
Corrector provinciae became one of the less prestigious -permanent!- titles of civilian governors (hierarchically under the Vicarius of a diocese) of certain Roman provinces, e.g. Provincia Augustamnica in Egypt (his five colleague-governors under the Praefectus Augustalis were styled Praeses);
in various municipia, corrector became the permanent style of a permanent single chief magistrate (traditionally there had been collegial systems, e.g. two Consules of Duumviri), as a 7th century (i.e. Byzantine) source attests for 13 cities in the Egyptian province Augustamnica Prima (split from the above-mentioned?)
A governor is also a device that regulates the speed of a machine. ... Map of the Roman Empire, with the provinces, after 120 AD. In Ancient Rome, a province (Latin, provincia, pl. ... Praeses is a Latin word meaning Being at the head of. Used for: 1 The title of some provincial governors in the Roman Empire. ...
Feudal times
Corrector of the press
Ecclesiastic (Catholic) titles
in the Roman Curia
in the regular order of the Minimi it was the style of Superiors at the central level, titled Corrector General, and the province, titled Corrector Provincial
Superior has various meanings: A superior is a person who has the authority to command another, as in a superior officer. See: Superior (function) In a hierarchical structure of any kind, a superior is higher in the hierarchy and thus closer to the apex than the subordinate ones. ...
Private sphere
In the context of publishing, ?proof-reader
Furthermore
The word was also used as the title of several publications, some of which are quite famous, such as :
in canon law : the nineteenthh book, also known as Medicus, of the Ancient canons
In Western culture, canon law is the law of the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches. ...
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By means of powerful interpolation and concealment algorithms, Wave Corrector generates click corrections which blend harmoniously with the underlying waveform..
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PE Corrector, as its name implies, is created for correcting Windows Portable Executable files (exe, dll, sys, bpl, dpl, cpl, ocx, acm, ax, scr).
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Cracking files after their have been processed with PE Corrector becomes much more difficult.
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