Rec·ti·fi·ca·tion n.
  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.   --De Quincey.
  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.
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