rectification

Meanings

Plural: rectifications

Noun

• (chemistry) the process of refinement or purification of a substance by distillation
• the conversion of alternating current to direct current
• the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right
• determination of the length of a curve; finding a straight line equal in length to a given curve
• The action or process of rectifying.
• The determination of a straight line whose length is equal to a portion of a curve.
• 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.
• The adjustment of a globe preparatory to the solution of a proposed problem.
• Purification of a substance through repeated or continuous distillation.
• Any of a number of Chinese and Filipino communist purges. See rectification movement.
• A procedure that attempts to determine a person's time of birth based on events in their life.

Synonyms

correction

Related Words

truncation