rectification

noun7

1. •
   The action or process of rectifying.

   • the rectification of an error; the rectification of spirits
2. •
   Purification of a substance through repeated or continuous distillation.
3. •
   (historical) Any of a number of Chinese and Filipino communist purges. See rectification movement.
4. •
   A procedure that attempts to determine a person's time of birth based on events in their life.
5. •
   The determination of a straight line whose length is equal to a portion of a curve.
6. •
   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.
7. •
   The adjustment of a globe preparatory to the solution of a proposed problem.