rectification

noun

Meaning

The action or process of rectifying.
The determination of a straight line whose length is equal to a portion of a curve.
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.
The adjustment of a globe preparatory to the solution of a proposed problem.
(chemical engineering) Purification of a substance through repeated or continuous distillation.

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