English to English verb
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math: determine the length of | | Example: rectify a curve
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reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities | | Example: refine sugar
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bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one | | Example: The Church reformed me reform your conduct
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set straight or right | | Example: remedy these deficiencies rectify the inequities in salaries repair an oversight
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make right or correct | | Example: Correct the mistakes rectify the calculation
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convert into direct current | | Example: rectify alternating current
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To make or set right; to correct from a wrong, erroneous, or false state; to amend; as, to rectify errors, mistakes, or abuses; to rectify the will, the judgment, opinions; to rectify disorders. | | source: webster1913
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