1. the action of correcting or setting right something that is wrong or inaccurate
2. the process of purifying a liquid by repeated distillation
Usage: chemistry
3. the conversion of alternating current to direct current
Usage: electronics

Examples

• The rectification of the accounting errors took several hours.
• The company issued a public rectification of their previous statement.
• The rectification process removed impurities from the alcohol.
• Engineers used rectification to convert AC power to DC power.
• The rectification of the boundary dispute required legal intervention.
• Careful rectification of the data improved the research results.
• The rectification circuit converted the alternating voltage to direct voltage.