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Continuity correction for Pearson and McNemar's chi-square test

I think this is a fairly stupid question, but I just realize that I don't quite understand the term continuity correction. I use R and found the same syntax ...
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Yates' continuity correction in confidence interval returned by prop.test

This is the confidence interval estimated by prop.test ...
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Yates continuity correction for 2 x 2 contingency tables

I would like to gather input from people in the field about the Yates continuity correction for 2 x 2 contingency tables. The Wikipedia article mentions it may adjust too far, and is thus only used in ...
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Yates' correction for continuity only for 2X2?

Is the Yates' correction for continuity used only for 2X2 matrices?