rectification

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɹɛktɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

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

Noun

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.

   • 2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, chapter 5, in Illusion of Order:

     Whereas delinquency correlates with treatment, psychotherapy, and correction, the category of the disorderly is more closely associated with a militaristic method of rectification.

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.

Derived terms

• birectification (geometry)
• image rectification

Translations

act of rectifying

• Bulgarian: поправка (bg) f (popravka)
• Catalan: rectificació (ca) f
• French: rectification (fr) f
• Galician: rectificación (gl) m, trasacordo m
• Romanian: rectificare (ro) f
• Russian: исправле́ние (ru) n (ispravlénije)
• Spanish: rectificación (es) f
• Tagalog: pagwawasto
• Turkish: düzeltme (tr), iyileştime

geometry: determination of a straight line

geometry: truncation of a polyhedron

astronomy: adjustment of a globe

See also

• truncation (geometry)

Anagrams

• certification

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin rectificātiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɛk.ti.fi.ka.sjɔ̃/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

Noun

rectification f (plural rectifications)

1. rectification

Related terms

• rectifier

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• certification