Meaning of RECTIFY
| Pronunciation: | | 'rektu`fI
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- [v] convert into direct current; "rectify alternating current"
- [v] make right or correct; "Correct the mistakes"; "rectify the calculation"
- [v] set straight or right; "remedy these deficiencies"; "rectify the inequities in salaries"; "repair an oversight"
- [v] bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one; "The Church reformed me"; "reform your conduct"
- [v] reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities; "refine sugar"
- [v] math: determine the length of; "rectify a curve"
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| | Synonyms: | | correct, reclaim, refine, reform, regenerate, right |
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| | Antonyms: | | falsify | | |
| | See Also: | | adjust, alter, amend, ascertain, change, change by reversal, commute, convert, debug, determine, distill, exchange, find, find out, make pure, moralise, moralize, purify, rectify, remediate, remedy, repair, reverse, set, sublimate, turn | |
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| | Definition: | | \Rec"ti*fy\ (-f?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rectified}
(-f?d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Rectifying} (-f?`?ng).] [F.
rectifier, LL. rectificare; L. rectus right + -ficare (in
comp.) to make. See {Right}, and {-fy}.]
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. (Chem.) 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. (Com.) 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.
Syn: To amend; emend; correct; better; mend; reform; redress;
adjust; regulate; improve. See {Amend}.
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