rectification

plural rectifications

1. countableuncountableThe action or process of rectifying.

   the rectification of an error; the rectification of spirits

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   […] as after the rectification of his views, he was incapable of compromise with profounder shapes of error.

   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

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

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

2. countableuncountablegeometryThe determination of a straight line whose length is equal to a portion of a curve.
3. countableuncountablegeometryThe 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. countableuncountableastronomyThe adjustment of a globe preparatory to the solution of a proposed problem.
5. countableuncountablechemical engineeringchemistryPurification of a substance through repeated or continuous distillation.
6. countablehistoricaluncountablegovernmentAny of a number of Chinese and Filipino communist purges. See rectification movement.
7. countableuncountableastrologyA procedure that attempts to determine a person's time of birth based on events in their life.