rectify
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈɹɛktəˌfaɪ/
rectify
- (obsolete, transitive) To heal (an organ or part of the body). [14th-18th c.]
- (transitive) To restore (someone or something) to its proper condition; to straighten out, to set right. [from 16th c.]
- (transitive) To remedy or fix (an undesirable state of affairs, situation etc.). [from 15th c.]
- to rectify the crisis
- (transitive, chemistry) To purify or refine (a substance) by distillation. [from 15th c.]
- (transitive) To correct or amend (a mistake, defect etc.). [from 16th c.]
- (transitive, now, rare) To correct (someone who is mistaken). [from 16th c.]
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.3:
- For thus their Sense informeth them, and herein their Reason cannot Rectifie them; and therefore hopelessly continuing in mistakes, they live and die in their absurdities […]
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.3:
- (transitive, geodesy, historical) To adjust (a globe or sundial) to prepare for the solution of a proposed problem. [from 16th c.]
- (transitive, electronics) To convert (alternating current) into direct current. [from 19th c.]
- (transitive, math) To determine the length of a curve included between two limits.
- (transitive) To produce (as factitious gin or brandy) by redistilling bad wines or strong spirits (whisky, rum, etc.) with flavourings.
- See also Thesaurus:repair
- German: destillieren
- Russian: очищать
- French: rectifier
- German: korrigieren
- Italian: rettificare
- Portuguese: retificar
- Russian: исправля́ть
- Spanish: rectificar, subsanar
- Italian: rettificare
- Russian: выпрямлять
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