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1.nounThe action or process of rectifying."the rectification of an error; the rectification of spirits"
2.nounThe determination of a straight line whose length is equal to a portion of a curve.
3.nounThe 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.nounThe adjustment of a globe preparatory to the solution of a proposed problem.
5.noun(chemical engineering) Purification of a substance through repeated or continuous distillation.