rectification
Meaning
- (countable, uncountable) The action or process of rectifying.
- (countable, uncountable) The determination of a straight line whose length is equal to a portion of a curve.
- (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.
- (countable, uncountable) The adjustment of a globe preparatory to the solution of a proposed problem.
- (countable, uncountable) Purification of a substance through repeated or continuous distillation.
- (countable, historical, uncountable) Any of a number of Chinese and Filipino communist purges. See rectification movement.
- (countable, uncountable) A procedure that attempts to determine a person's time of birth based on events in their life.
Synonyms
rectify
corrective action
actification
regenerative action
reclaiming action
zeroing-in
Translations
rectificación
rectification
rettificazione
retificação
Verbesserung
rectificació
επανόρθωση ανόρθωση διόρθωσηPronounced as (IPA)
/ˌɹɛktɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle English rectificacioun, from Old French rectificacion, from Late Latin rectificatio.
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