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Adjective: rectified  'rek-ti,fId
  1. Having been put right
    "Employment discrimination must be rectified"
Verb: rectify  'rek-ti,fI
  1. Make right or correct
    "rectify the calculation";
    - correct, right
     
  2. Correct, fix, improve or make right something that is wrong or defective
    "rectify the inequities in salaries";
    - remediate, remedy, repair, amend
     
  3. Reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities
    "The process rectifies the raw alcohol";
    - refine
     
  4. Convert into direct current
    "rectify alternating current"
     
  5. Determine the length of
    "rectify a curve"

See also: corrected

Type of: ascertain, change, commute, convert, determine, distil [Brit], distill [N. Amer], exchange, find, find out, purify, reverse, sublimate, turn

Encyclopedia: Rectified

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