verb
- Math: determine the length of.
- usage: "rectify a curve"
- synonyms: rectify
- Reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities.
- usage: "refine sugar"
- 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, rectify
- Set straight or right.
- usage: "remedy these deficiencies"; "rectify the inequities in salaries"; "repair an oversight"
- Make right or correct.
- usage: "Correct the mistakes"; "rectify the calculation"
- Convert into direct current.
- usage: "rectify alternating current"
- synonyms: rectify
adjective
- Having been put right. .
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
| APA | WordNet. (2010). rectified. Retrieved September 20, 2026, from http://smartdefine.org/rectified/definitions/1182033 |
| Chicago | WordNet. 2010. "rectified" http://smartdefine.org/rectified/definitions/1182033 (accessed September 20, 2026). |
| Harvard | WordNet 2010, rectified, Smart Define, viewed 20 September, 2026, <http://smartdefine.org/rectified/definitions/1182033>. |
| MLA | WordNet. "rectified" 23 October 2010. Web. 20 September 2026. <http://smartdefine.org/rectified/definitions/1182033> |