rectify
She was pleased with the rapid rectification of the problem.
This system allows for easy rectification of mistakes.
We will have to seek rectification from those who benefited from the crime.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Correcting and mending
calibration
clean (someone/something) up
correction
fiddle (around) with something
fine-tune
mess
reconstruct
reconstruction
recover
rectifiable
refine
refinement
remedy
revised
scratch
smooth something away
smoothen
sort
sort something out
troubleshoot

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Examples of rectification

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Molecular determinants of electrical rectification of single channel conductance in gap junctions formed by connexins 26 and 32.
The distribution of interactions across harmonic orders is consistent with local rectification preceding the spatial interactions.
Thus, rectification caused by spike threshold is sufficient to create an onset delay, and changes in conductance or membrane time constant are not required.
To distinguish these from retroactive principles of justice such as justice in rectification.
Electrostatic effects on ion selectivity and rectification in designed ion channel peptides.
The men in this group also seemed particularly regretful of 'rectifying ' distressing past events but hopeful of rectification.
Not surprisingly, the rectification is greater in the asymmetric conditions of the on-cell recordings.
For example, corrective justice commands rectification by wrongdoers but fails to supply a theory of wrongdoing, without which policy questions cannot be resolved.
Such a rectification follows naturally from the shunting inhibitory connection in the present model.
The macroscopic behavior is accounted for by the rectification of the single-channel conductance.
The inward rectification was eliminated by extracellular cesium (data not shown).
Secondly, and unlike the principles of acquisition and transfer, the principle of rectification is given no formal expression.
The basis for this rectification has been explored theoretically by two groups, and experimentally by one of them.
For simplicity, we have assumed that the monocular simple cells implement only half-wave rectification.
A helical-dipole model describes the single-channel current rectification of an uncharged peptide ion channel.
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