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語源

From 中期英語 rectificacioun, from Old French rectificacion, from Late Latin rectificatio.

発音

• IPA: /ˌɹɛktɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
• 韻: -eɪʃən
• ハイフネーション: rec‧ti‧fi‧ca‧tion

名詞

rectification (countable and uncountable, plural rectifications)

1. The action or process of rectifying.

   the rectification of an error; the rectification of spirits

   • 1847, Thomas De Quincey, Secret Societies, originally published in parts in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, reprinted in 1863, Thomas De Quincey, Judas Iscariot and Other Writings, page 274

     […] as after the rectification of his views, he was incapable of compromise with profounder shapes of error.

   • 2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, chapter 5, in Illusion of Order:

     Whereas delinquency correlates with treatment, psychotherapy, and correction, the category of the disorderly is more closely associated with a militaristic method of rectification.

2. (geometry) The determination of a straight line whose length is equal to a portion of a curve.
3. (geometry) The truncation of a polyhedron by replacing each vertex with a face that passes though the midpoint of each edge connected to the vertex; an analogous procedure on a polytope of dimension higher than 3.
4. (astronomy) The adjustment of a globe preparatory to the solution of a proposed problem.
5. (chemistry, chemical engineering) Purification of a substance through repeated or continuous distillation.
6. (politics, historical) Any of a number of Chinese and Filipino communist purges. See rectification movement.
7. (astrology) A procedure that attempts to determine a person's time of birth based on events in their life.

派生語

• birectification (geometry)
• image rectification

参考

• truncation (geometry)

アナグラム

• certification