rectification

UK/ˌɹɛktɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/US/ˌɹɛktɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/

nounC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #15,163 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: rectifications

Rectification is the putting right of something wrong. Await rectification.

It is the formal word in contracts and in complaints, where correcting is what is owed. Rectification of a document by a court means changing it to say what both sides actually agreed.

Definitions of rectification

1nounrectificationThe putting right of something wrong.C1
“The rectification took longer than building the thing had.”

rectification is a correcting.

Where it comes from

Latin rectificatio comes from rectus, straight, plus facere, to make.

Proto-Indo-European
*h₃reǵ-
Latin
rectificatio
Old French
rectificacion
Middle English
rectificacioun
English, today
rectification

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

rectification in the wild

The process is known as rectification, since it "straightens" the direction of current.
Rectifier
In gas heating systems, flame rectification is used to detect the presence of a flame.
Rectifier
As a special case, a square tiling {4,4} will turn into another square tiling {4,4} under a rectification operation.
Rectification (geometry)
The process of inward-rectification was discovered by Bernard Katz in skeletal muscle cells in 1949, and Denis Noble in cardiac muscle cells in 1960s.
Inward-rectifier potassium channel
The rectification movement is regarded by many as the origin of Mao Zedong's cult of personality.
Yan'an Rectification Movement

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