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Definition of Rectify

1. Verb. Math: determine the length of. "Rectify a curve"

2. Verb. Reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities. "Refine sugar"

3. Verb. Bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one. "Reform your conduct"

4. Verb. Set straight or right. "Repair an oversight"

5. Verb. Make right or correct. "Rectify the calculation"

6. Verb. Convert into direct current. "Rectify alternating current"

Definition of Rectify

1. v. t. To make or set right; to correct from a wrong, erroneous, or false state; to amend; as, to rectify errors, mistakes, or abuses; to rectify the will, the judgment, opinions; to rectify disorders.

Definition of Rectify

1. Verb. (transitive) To correct or amend something. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive chemistry) To purify or refine, especially by distillation. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive electronics) To convert alternating current into direct current. ¹

4. Verb. (rfv-sense opposite to sense # 2!) (transitive) To add water to alcoholic spirit to adjust its proof. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rectify

1. to correct [v -FIED, -FYING, -FIES] - See also: correct

Medical Definition of Rectify

1. 1. To make or set right; to correct from a wrong, erroneous, or false state; to amend; as, to rectify errors, mistakes, or abuses; to rectify the will, the judgment, opinions; to rectify disorders. "I meant to rectify my conscience." (Shak) "This was an error of opinion which a conflicting opinion would have rectified." (Burke) 2. To refine or purify by repeated distillation or sublimation, by which the fine parts of a substance are separated from the grosser; as, to rectify spirit of wine. 3. To produce (as factitious gin or brandy) by redistilling low wines or ardent spirits (whisky, rum, etc), flavoring substances, etc, being added. To rectify a globe, to adjust it in order to prepare for the solution of a proposed problem. Synonym: To amend, emend, correct, better, mend, reform, redress, adjust, regulate, improve. See Amend. Origin: F. Rectifier, LL. Rectificare; L. Rectus right + -ficare (in comp) to make. See Right, and -fy. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rectify

recti recti- rectifiability rectifiable rectification rectifications rectificator rectified rectified optics rectified spirit

rectified tar oil rectifier rectifier tube rectifiers rectifies rectify (current term) rectifying rectifying synapse rectifying tube rectifying valve

rectilineal rectilineally rectilinear rectilinear regression rectilinearity rectilinearization rectilinearly rectilineous rectinerved rection

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