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rectification

noun

as in correction

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Recent Examples of rectification As with the party’s other massive campaigns, such as the one-child policy, cadres understand that compliance with rectification is mandatory and a high priority for leaders. — Andrew Mertha, Foreign Affairs, 17 Sep. 2026 Sam's Club has established a rectification task force to overhaul supply-chain inspections and replaced its chairman with Liu Peng, a former executive at Alibaba. — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 22 June 2026 Their defensive shortcomings require immediate rectification. — Chris Waugh, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2026 The oscilloscope shows an AC voltage of 80 V at mid-swing, but after rectification, it is reduced to 30 V DC. — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 11 Feb. 2026 Fedorov also believed that this goal of rectification — of achieving immortality — would unite social groups whose mutual fear of death had historically pitted them in opposition to each other. — Tim Brinkhof, Big Think, 12 Sep. 2025 Incident response times for physical rectification is pegged to drop by 40%. — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025 The invention of the SCR led to improvements in the control of the rectification, or conversion, of line voltage from AC to DC and became the basis of modern speed control in both AC and DC motors. — IEEE Spectrum, 22 July 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rectification
  1. correction
  2. reform
  3. amendment
  4. modification
  5. alteration
  6. revision
  7. transformation
  8. distortion
Noun
  • Is that over-correction or proper compliance according to Coulter?
    — Robert Steinbuch, Arkansas Online, 18 Sep. 2026
  • But then there was a market correction in April 2022, and the economics no longer made sense to keep that streaming output going.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of correction
Noun
  • The permitting reform bill would need to be ready to go as soon as the sports bill is done to get in the queue.
    — Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 18 Sep. 2026
  • So real reform that is bipartisan has been left on the shelf amidst rising healthcare costs because of the governor’s unwillingness and failure of leadership, and that’s what matters to Connecticut residents – results.
    — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of reform
Noun
  • To speed things up, Democrats want amendment votes, most notably one that would allow college athletes to collectively bargain.
    — Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 22 Sep. 2026
  • When Minnesota voters go to the polls, in addition to local and statewide races, they will be asked to vote on a constitutional amendment to provide millions more dollars for Minnesota K-12 schools.
    — Esme Murphy, CBS News, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of amendment
Noun
  • To do this, workers make surgical modifications and upgrades to key plant equipment, including turbines, pumps, motors and cooling systems.
    — Kristi Swartz, AJC.com, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Fewer design changes The first of Gaucher’s four-pillar strategy involves locking in submarine designs to prevent modifications from slowing construction.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of modification
Noun
  • Yet, the oxygen isotopes in these primitive samples remained virtually untouched by parent-body alteration.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 22 Sep. 2026
  • One of his biggest alterations, which came late in the process, were to the nails on the hands.
    — Lavender Au, ARTnews.com, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of alteration
Noun
  • The way voters elect highway district commissioners is set to change this November — and the Ada County Highway District said it was blindsided by the timing of the revision.
    — Idaho Statesman, Idaho Statesman, 17 Sep. 2026
  • One of those revisions earned John Nash of Princeton University and two others the Noble economics prize.
    — Zev Fima, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of revision
Noun
  • The one group left out of this transformation, Nussbaum believed, were working-class women.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Ahead, Bélanger details Reinhart’s transformation, how hair furthers the stories of both her character and costar Tom Bateman’s, and gives us a glimpse of the happenings behind the scenes.
    — Jesa Marie Calaor, Allure, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of transformation
Noun
  • Propeller airflow creates a storm of noise, air distortion, and drift.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2026
  • This applies most where a tool’s confidence in a candidate runs unusually high or low, since that is where distortion is most likely to hide.
    — Houman Akhavan, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of distortion

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“Rectification.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rectification. Accessed 26 Sep. 2026.

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