rectification

rectify | American Dictionary

rectify
verb[ T ]
us/ˈrek·təˌfɑɪ/
to correct or make right:
I hadn’t meant to cause trouble, and asked what I could do to rectify the situation.

rectify | Business English

rectify
verb[ T ]
uk /ˈrektɪfaɪ/us
to deal with a problem or mistake so that it no longer exists:
How do we rectify the alarming fall in stock market performance?
rectify a problem/situation/mistakeThe CEO and upper management pledged to take the necessary steps to rectify the situation.
be rectifiedMarketing strategies appear to have been weak and this must be rectified to facilitate growth.
FINANCE
to spend more money or to make additional payments in order to deal with a difficult financial situation:
The President failed to deliver on his promise to rectify the public finances.
Contributions to the pension fund have been increased to about £1m annually and the firm expects this to rectify the shortfall within about 10 years.

Examples of rectify

rectify
Any discrepancies, ambiguities or failed amplifications were rectified by repeating genotyping of the samples.
Finally, the normally operated stationary hot-wire probe cannot recognize flow reversal and it rectifies the voltage output.
Furthermore, excision of outside-out patches from pericapillary endfeet also revealed outwardly rectifying currents.
In the interests of rectifying this situation, my aims in this paper are twofold.
However, there are ways of rectifying this problem.
He suggested rectifying this situation through a complete overhaul of medrese education, including the establishment of regulated programs of study directed toward specific ulema vocations.
A new family of outwardly rectifying potassium channel proteins with two pore domains in tandem.
To simplify the power driver circuit the signal is then full wave rectified before being delivered to the particle brakes.
If this imbalance cannot easily be rectified, sensitivity and diplomacy can make it less problematic.
The digital signal was rectified and integrated using a 20-ms time constant.
When injustice occurs, rectifying it is a virtue, as are the social virtues of loyalty, kinship piety, and group solidarity with people who have suffered.
The focus on quantity rather than quality that was alleged against the 1990s is rectified by the fixed tariff and increased performance information being published.
Due to technical difficulties that have since been rectified, the photomicrographs in this ar ticle did not reproduce at the best resolution possible.
They are, however, described as inwardly rectifying because net flux through the channels is inward over a depolarization-hyperpolarization cycle under symmetrical ionic conditions.
The delay in rectifying this problem does not make for edifying reading.
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