Rectification

Quick meaning: Rectification is a noun meaning The action or process of rectifying.

Meaning

The action or process of rectifying.

More Meanings

1. (geometry) The determination of a straight line whose length is equal to a portion of a curve.
2. (astronomy) The adjustment of a globe preparatory to the solution of a proposed problem.
3. (chemistry, chemical engineering) Purification of a substance through repeated or continuous distillation.
4. (politics, historical) Any of a number of Chinese and Filipino communist purges. See rectification movement.
5. (astrology) A procedure that attempts to determine a person's time of birth based on events in their life.
6. (geometry) The truncation of a polyhedron by replacing each vertex with a face that passes though the midpoint of each edge connected to the vertex; an analogous procedure on a polytope of dimension higher than 3.

Example Sentences

the rectification of an error; the rectification of spirits

[…] as after the rectification of his views, he was incapable of compromise with profounder shapes of error.

Whereas delinquency correlates with treatment, psychotherapy, and correction, the category of the disorderly is more closely associated with a militaristic method of rectification.

Word Forms

• rectifications

Synonyms for rectification

Depending on context, synonyms include correction, correcting.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include correction, correcting, corrective, rectifier, remediation, remedy.

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