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单词 rectify
释义 Verb: rectify  'rektu`fI
  1. Maths: determine the length of
    "rectify a curve" 
  2. Reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities
    - refine 
  3. Bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one
    - reform, reclaim, regenerate 
  4. Set straight or right
    "rectify the inequities in salaries"
    - remediate, remedy, repair, amend 
  5. Make right or correct
    "rectify the calculation"
    - correct, right 
  6. Convert into direct current
    "rectify alternating current"

Derived forms: rectified, rectifies, rectifying

See also: rectification, rectifier

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

Encyclopedia: Rectify

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