rectify /'rektifai; 'rektazfai/ vt (pt, pp -fied) [VP6A] 1 put right; take out mistakes from: 改正; ML： ~ abuses; 故正惡習(xí)弊端; mistakes that cannot be rectified. 無法改正的錯誤。 2 purify or refine by repeated distillation or other process: 以連續(xù)蒸餾或其他過程凈化或精煉; 精餾： rectified spirits. 精餾酒精。 rectifier n person or thing that rectifies; (electr) device which converts alternating current to direct current. 改正者; 矯正器; 精餾器; (電) 整流器。 rectification /jektifi'keifn; zrEktafa'kefan/ n [U] ~ing or being rectified: 改正; 被改正; 精餾; 被精餾： Me rectification of errors/alcohol; 錯誤之改正 (酒精之精餾); [C] instance of this; sth that has been rectified, 改正或精餾之實例; 被改正或精餾過之物。