rectify
verb
[ ˈrɛktɪfʌɪ ]
• put right; correct.
• "mistakes made now cannot be rectified later"
Similar:
correct,
put/set/make right,
right,
put to rights,
sort out,
deal with,
amend,
revise,
remedy,
repair,
fix,
cure,
heal,
make good,
reform,
harmonize,
retrieve,
improve,
better,
ameliorate,
adjust,
resolve,
settle,
redress,
square,
patch up,
• convert (alternating current) to direct current.
• "the current from the transformers is rectified by high-voltage diodes"
• find a straight line equal in length to (a curve).
• "his methods of rectifying the cycloid"
• purify or refine (a substance) by repeated or continuous distillation.
• "butyl lactate was rectified, and the purified butyl lactate was sequentially hydrolysed"
Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French rectifier, from medieval Latin rectificare, from Latin rectus ‘right’.
