Equalize and Rectify

verb

• Compensate; make the score equal.
  • synonyms: equalise, get even
• Make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching.
  • usage: "let's equalize the duties among all employees in this office"; "The company matched the discount policy of its competitors"
  • synonyms: equal, match, equalise, equate

• (v.t.) To make equal; to cause to correspond or be like, in amount or degree as compared; as, to equalize accounts, burdens or taxes.
• (v.t.) To pronounce equal; to compare as equal.
• (v.t.) To be equal to; equal; to match.

verb

• Math: determine the length of.
  • usage: "rectify a curve"
• Reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities.
  • usage: "refine sugar"
  • synonyms: refine
• 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
• Set straight or right.
  • usage: "remedy these deficiencies"; "rectify the inequities in salaries"; "repair an oversight"
  • synonyms: remediate, remedy, repair, amend
• Make right or correct.
  • usage: "Correct the mistakes"; "rectify the calculation"
  • synonyms: correct, right
• Convert into direct current.
  • usage: "rectify alternating current"

• (v.t.) To make or set right; to correct from a wrong, erroneous or false state; to amend; as, to rectify errors, mistakes or abuses; to rectify the will, the judgment, opinions; to rectify disorders.
• (v.t.) To produce ( as factitious gin or brandy) by redistilling low wines or ardent spirits (whisky, rum, etc.), flavoring substances, etc., being added.
• (v.t.) To refine or purify by repeated distillation or sublimation, by which the fine parts of a substance are separated from the grosser; as, to rectify spirit of wine.