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rectification en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˌɹɛktɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) The action or process of rectifying.
    • 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. 1847, Thomas De Quincey, Secret Societies, originally published in parts in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, reprinted in 1863, Thomas De Quincey, Judas Iscariot and Other Writings, page 274
    • Whereas delinquency correlates with treatment, psychotherapy, and correction, the category of the disorderly is more closely associated with a militaristic method of rectification. 2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, chapter 5, in Illusion of Order:
  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, qualifier:chemical engineering, 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.

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Deriveds

rectificational · georectification · birectification · orthorectification · image rectification

Relateds

truncation

Translations (11)

ca rectificació (act of rectifying) · gl rectificación (act of rectifying) · bg поправка (act of rectifying) · ru исправле́ние (act of rectifying) · gl trasacordo (act of rectifying) · fr rectification (act of rectifying) · tr düzeltme (act of rectifying) · es rectificación (act of rectifying) · tr iyileştime (act of rectifying) · ro rectificare (act of rectifying) · tl pagwawasto (act of rectifying)