Rectification

[Cf. F. rectification.]

1. The act or operation of rectifying; as, the rectification of an error; the rectification of spirits.

After the rectification of his views, he was incapable of compromise with profounder shapes of error.

2. (Geom.) The determination of a straight line whose length is equal a portion of a curve.

Rectification of a globe (Astron.), its adjustment preparatory to the solution of a proposed problem.

Process that converts alternating current to direct current.

(DOD, NATO) In photogrammetry, the process of projecting a tilted or oblique photograph on to a horizontal reference plane.

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Rectification has the following technical meanings:

• Rectification, in astrology
• Rectification (chemistry)
• Chinese history: see Cheng Feng
• Chinese philosophy: see Confucianism for rectification of names (zhèngmíng‎)
• Rectification (geometry) - truncating a polytope by marking the midpoints of all its edges, and cutting off its vertices at those points
• Rectifier (electricity) - converter of AC to DC
• Image rectification - adjustment of images to simplify stereo vision or to map images to a map coordinate system (GIS)
• Rectification (law)
• Rectifiable curve, in mathematics
• Rectifiable set, in mathematics

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