rectification

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The action or process of rectifying.

   • the rectification of an error; the rectification of spirits
   • […] as after the rectification of his views, he was incapable of compromise with profounder shapes of error.
   • Whereas delinquency correlates with treatment, psychotherapy, and correction, the category of the disorderly is more closely associated with a militaristic method of rectification.
2. 2

   The determination of a straight line whose length is equal to a portion of a curve.

3. 3

   The truncation of a polyhedron by replacing each vertex with a face that passes though…

   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.

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   1. 4

      The adjustment of a globe preparatory to the solution of a proposed problem.

   2. 5

      Purification of a substance through repeated or continuous distillation.

   3. 6

      Any of a number of Chinese and Filipino communist purges. See rectification movement.

   4. 7

      A procedure that attempts to determine a person's time of birth based on events in their…

      A procedure that attempts to determine a person's time of birth based on events in their life.

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