rectifications

Noun

rectification (countable and uncountable, plural rectifications)

1. The action or process of rectifying.
   • the rectification of an error; the rectification of spirits
2. The determination of a straight line whose length is equal to a portion of a curve.
3. 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.
4. The adjustment of a globe preparatory to the solution of a proposed problem.
5. (chemical engineering) Purification of a substance through repeated or continuous distillation.
6. (historical) Any of a number of Chinese and Filipino communist purges. See rectification movement.

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