| corrected | | |
| adj. | 1. corrected | having something undesirable neutralized.; "with glasses her corrected vision was 20:20" |
| ~ aplanatic | free from or corrected for spherical aberration.; "an aplanatic mirror" |
| ~ apochromatic | corrected for both chromatic and spherical aberration.; "an apochromatic lens" |
| ~ rectified | having been put right. |
| rectify | | |
| v. (communication) | 1. rectify | math: determine the length of.; "rectify a curve" |
| ~ ascertain, determine, find out, find | establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study.; "find the product of two numbers"; "The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize" |
| v. (change) | 2. rectify, refine | reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities.; "refine sugar" |
| ~ distill, make pure, purify, sublimate | remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation.; "purify the water" |
| v. (change) | 3. reclaim, rectify, reform, regenerate | bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one.; "The Church reformed me"; "reform your conduct" |
| ~ alter, change, modify | cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" |
| ~ see the light, straighten out, reform | change for the better.; "The lazy student promised to reform"; "the habitual cheater finally saw the light" |
| ~ moralise, moralize | improve the morals of. |
| v. (change) | 4. amend, rectify, remediate, remedy, repair | set straight or right.; "remedy these deficiencies"; "rectify the inequities in salaries"; "repair an oversight" |
| ~ correct, right, rectify | make right or correct.; "Correct the mistakes"; "rectify the calculation" |
| v. (change) | 5. correct, rectify, right | make right or correct.; "Correct the mistakes"; "rectify the calculation" |
| ~ change by reversal, reverse, turn | change to the contrary.; "The trend was reversed"; "the tides turned against him"; "public opinion turned when it was revealed that the president had an affair with a White House intern" |
| ~ remediate, remedy, amend, rectify, repair | set straight or right.; "remedy these deficiencies"; "rectify the inequities in salaries"; "repair an oversight" |
| ~ debug | locate and correct errors in a computer program code.; "debug this program" |
| v. (change) | 6. rectify | convert into direct current.; "rectify alternating current" |
| ~ exchange, convert, commute, change | exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category.; "Could you convert my dollars into pounds?"; "He changed his name"; "convert centimeters into inches"; "convert holdings into shares" |
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