rectification

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: rec=ti=fi=ca=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

rectification, n. [Cf. F. rectification.].

•  The act or operation of rectifying; as, the rectification of an error; the rectification of spirits.  [1913 Webster]

  "After the rectification of his views, he was incapable of compromise with profounder shapes of error."  [1913 Webster]
•  The determination of a straight line whose length is equal a portion of a curve.  [1913 Webster]

Rectification of a globe (Astron.), its adjustment preparatory to the solution of a proposed problem.

THESAURUS

rectification

amendment, amends, atonement, balancing, commutation, compensation, correction, counteraction, counterbalancing, editing, emendation, expiation, fixing, indemnification, indemnity, lex talionis, making right, mending, offsetting, overhaul, overhauling, recension, recompense, redaction, redress, remedy, repair, repairing, reparation, repayment, rescript, rescription, restitution, retaliation, revampment, revenge, revisal, revise, revised edition, revision, rewrite, rewriting, satisfaction, substitution, troubleshooting

ROGET THESAURUS

rectification

Restoration

N restoration, restoral, reinstatement, replacement, rehabilitation, reestablishment, reconstitution, reconstruction, reproduction, renovation, renewal, revival, revivessence, reviviscence, refreshment, resuscitation, reanimation, revivification, reviction, Phenix, reorganization, renaissance, second youth, rejuvenescence, new birth, regeneration, regeneracy, regenerateness, palingenesis, reconversion, redress, retrieval, reclamation, recovery, convalescence, resumption, resumption, sanativeness, recurrence, rechauffe, rifacimento, cure, recure, sanation, healing, redintegration, rectification, instauration, repair, reparation, remanufacture, recruiting, cicatrization, disinfection, tinkering, reaction, redemption, restitution, relief, tinker, cobbler, vis medicatrix, curableness, restored, redivivus, convalescent, in a fair way, none the worse, rejuvenated, restoring, restorative, recuperative, sanative, reparative, sanatory, reparatory, curative, remedial, restorable, recoverable, sanable, remediable, retrievable, curable, in statu quo, as you were, phr, revenons a nos moutons, medecin, gueris-toi toi- meme, vestigia nulla retrorsum.