rectification

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

• IPA^(key): /ˌɹɛktɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən
• Hyphenation: rec‧ti‧fi‧ca‧tion

rectification (countable and uncountable, plural rectifications)

1. The action or process of rectifying.

   the rectification of an error; the rectification of spirits

   • 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,

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

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

• birectification (geometry)
• image rectification

• truncation (geometry)

• certification

Learned borrowing from Late Latin rectificātiōnem.

• IPA^(key): /ʁɛk.ti.fi.ka.sjɔ̃/

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rectification f (plural rectifications)

1. rectification

• rectifier

• “rectification”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• certification