rectification

Signification (Anglais)

1. (countable, uncountable) The action or process of rectifying.
2. (countable, uncountable) The determination of a straight line whose length is equal to a portion of a curve.
3. (countable, uncountable) 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.
4. (countable, uncountable) The adjustment of a globe preparatory to the solution of a proposed problem.
5. (countable, uncountable) Purification of a substance through repeated or continuous distillation.
6. (countable, historical, uncountable) Any of a number of Chinese and Filipino communist purges. See rectification movement.
7. (countable, uncountable) A procedure that attempts to determine a person's time of birth based on events in their life.

Concepts

rectification

correction

redressement

amélioration

distillation

Synonymes

correction

amendment

adjustment

rectify

refinement

redress

detection

distillation

emendation

fairing

fixing

fractional distillation

fractionation

palingenesis

purification

readjust

recovery

rectifying

regeneration

removal

repair

revision

shortcut

tidy

updating

depuration

corrective action

actification

regenerative action

reclaiming action

adjust

zeroing-in

calibration

check

cleaning

commutate

commutation

demodulation

distilling

Traductions

rectificación

rettificazione

retificação

Verbesserung

rettifica

emendazione

rectificació

επανόρθωση

Berichtigung

ανόρθωση

verbetering

διόρθωση

διορθώσιμος

αποκατάσταση

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˌɹɛktɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: rectificacioun

In summary

From Middle English rectificacioun, from Old French rectificacion, from Late Latin rectificatio.