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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rectification \Rec`ti*fi*ca"tion\ (r?k`t?*f?*k?1sh?n), n. [Cf.
F. rectification.]
1. The act or operation of rectifying; as the rectification
of an error; the rectification of spirits.
After the rectification of his views, he was
incapable of compromise with profounder shapes of
error. --De Quincey.
2. (Geom.) The determination of a straight line whose length
is equal a portion of a curve.
{Rectification of a globe} (Astron.), its adjustment
preparatory to the solution of a proposed problem.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
rectification
n : the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake
[syn: {correction}, {correcting}]
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