Definition of "rectification" in English

noun

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.

2. (geometry) The determination of a straight line whose length is equal to a portion of a curve.

3. (geometry) 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. (astronomy) The adjustment of a globe preparatory to the solution of a proposed problem.

5. (chemistry, chemical engineering) Purification of a substance through repeated or continuous distillation.

6. (politics, historical) Any of a number of Chinese and Filipino communist purges. See rectification movement.

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