rectification
IPA: rɛktʌfʌkˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- The action or process of rectifying.
- (geometry) The determination of a straight line whose length is equal to a portion of a curve.
- (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.
- (astronomy) The adjustment of a globe preparatory to the solution of a proposed problem.
- (chemistry, chemical engineering) Purification of a substance through repeated or continuous distillation.
- (politics, historical) Any of a number of Chinese and Filipino communist purges. See rectification movement.
- (astrology) A procedure that attempts to determine a person's time of birth based on events in their life.
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Examples of "rectification" in Sentences
- Overview of inward rectification.
- Mechanism of inward rectification.
- The nth rectification is the dual.
- Rectification in the audio equipment.
- I appreciate the prompt rectification.
- But the order for rectification is rare.
- Fa rectification is not a major teaching.
- I would appreciate a rectification on this.
- It represents a truncation beyond rectification.
- Scholarly extension of the rectification of names.
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