Dictionary Definition
rectify
Verb
1 math: determine the length of; "rectify a
curve"
2 reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state;
separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities; "refine
sugar" [syn: refine]
3 bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or
evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one; "The Church
reformed me"; "reform your conduct" [syn: reform, reclaim, regenerate]
4 set straight or right; "remedy these
deficiencies"; "rectify the inequities in salaries"; "repair an
oversight" [syn: remediate, remedy, repair, amend]
5 make right or correct; "Correct the mistakes";
"rectify the calculation" [syn: correct, right] [ant: falsify]
6 convert into direct current; "rectify
alternating current" [also: rectified]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Verb
- To correct or amend something.
- transitive chemistry To purify or refine, especially by distillation.
- transitive electronics To convert alternating current into direct current.
- To add water to alcoholic spirit to adjust its proof.
Derived terms
Translations
To correct or amend something
- Finnish: oikaista, korjata
- Italian: rettificare
To purify or refine, especially by distillation
To convert alternating current into direct
current
- Finnish: tasasuunnata
- Italian: rettificare
To add water to alcoholic spirit to adjust its
proof
Extensive Definition
Rectification has the following technical
meanings.
- Rectification, in astrology
- Rectification (chemistry)
- Chinese history - see Cheng Feng
- Rectification (geometry) - truncating a polytope by marking the midpoints of all its edges, and cutting off its vertices at those points
- Rectifier
- Image rectification - adjustment of images to simplify stereo vision or to map images to a map coordinate system (GIS)
- Rectification (law)
- Rectifiable curve, in mathematics
- Rectifiable set, in mathematics
rectify in German: Rektifikation
rectify in Japanese:
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Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
accommodate, accommodate
with, accord, adapt, adapt to, adjust, adjust to, agree with,
ameliorate, amend, assimilate, assimilate to,
atone, attune, be guided by, bend, blue-pencil, bolt, chime in with, clarify, clear, compensate, comply, comply with, compose, conform, coordinate, correct, correspond, cover, cure, cut to, decrassify, depurate, discipline, disentangle, distill, do penance, edit, edulcorate, elute, emend, emendate, equalize, essentialize, expiate, extend, extract, fall in with, fill up,
filter, filtrate, fit, fix, flatten, follow, gear to, give and take,
give satisfaction, go by, harmonize, homologate, homologize, improve, indemnify, key to, leach, lixiviate, make all square,
make amends, make compensation, make conform, make good, make
plumb, make right, make uniform, make up for, measure, meet, mend, mold, observe, pay back, pay
reparations, percolate, proportion, purify, put in tune, put right,
put straight, put to rights, rebuild, recense, recompense, reconcile, redact, redraft, redress, refine, regulate, remedy, remunerate, repair, repay, requite, retaliate, revamp, revise, rework, rewrite, right, rub off corners, screen, separate, set, set right, set straight, set to
rights, set up, settle,
shape, sieve, sift, similarize, sit up, smooth, spiritualize, square, stand up, straighten, straighten out,
straighten up, strain,
sublimate, sublime, suit, sync, synchronize, tailor, tally with, trim to,
true, true up, try, tune, unbend, uncurl, unkink, unsnarl, winnow, work over, yield