Correcting and Rectified
(p.pr.&vb.n.) of Correct.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
verb
- Math: determine the length of.
- usage: "rectify a curve"
- synonyms: rectify
- Reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities.
- usage: "refine sugar"
- Bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one.
- usage: "The Church reformed me"; "reform your conduct"
- synonyms: reform, reclaim, regenerate, rectify
- Set straight or right.
- usage: "remedy these deficiencies"; "rectify the inequities in salaries"; "repair an oversight"
- Make right or correct.
- usage: "Correct the mistakes"; "rectify the calculation"
- Convert into direct current.
- usage: "rectify alternating current"
- synonyms: rectify
adjective
- Having been put right. .
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
(imp.&p.p.) of Rectify.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary