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rectification — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • correction noun The act of fixing a mistake, or the fix itself.
  • rectification noun The action or process of rectifying.

Senses

rectification is used for these senses in English:

correction — full definition

  1. noun The act of fixing a mistake, or the fix itself.
  2. noun A drop in stock market prices after a period of gains, typically at least 10%.
  3. noun Punishment intended to improve someone's behavior.

rectification — full definition

  1. noun The action or process of rectifying.
  2. noun The determination of a straight line whose length is equal to a portion of a curve.
  3. noun 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. noun The adjustment of a globe preparatory to the solution of a proposed problem.

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