1. The act of correcting or amending something that occurred or was recorded in the past, as if the correction had been made at the original time.
The company issued a retrospective correction to the financial records from last quarter.
A empresa emitiu uma correção retroativa aos registros financeiros do trimestre passado.
2. In academic or editorial contexts, a formal amendment to previously published material.
The journal published a retrospective correction of the data in the original study.
A revista publicou uma correção retroativa dos dados do estudo original.