different between rectification vs campaign

English

Etymology

From Middle English rectificacioun, from Old French rectificacion, from Late Latin rectificatio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???kt?f??ke???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n
• Hyphenation: rec?ti?fi?ca?tion

Noun

rectification (countable and uncountable, plural rectifications)

1. The action or process of rectifying.
   • 1847, Thomas De Quincey, Secret Societies, originally published in parts in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, reprinted in 1863, Thomas De Quincey, Judas Iscariot and Other Writings, page 274,

     […] as after the rectification of his views, he was incapable of compromise with profounder shapes of error.

2. (geometry) The determination of a straight line whose length is equal to a portion of a curve.
3. (geometry) The truncation of a polyhedron by replacing each vertex with a face that passes though the midpoint of each edge connected to the vertex; an analogous procedure on a polytope of dimension higher than 3.
4. (astronomy) The adjustment of a globe preparatory to the solution of a proposed problem.
5. (chemistry, chemical engineering) Purification of a substance through repeated or continuous distillation.
6. (politics, historical) Any of a number of Chinese and Filipino communist purges. See rectification movement.
7. (astrology) A procedure that attempts to determine a person's time of birth based on events in their life.

Related terms

• birectification (geometry)

Translations

See also

• truncation (geometry)

Anagrams

• certification

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin rectificatio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??k.ti.fi.ka.sj??/

Noun

rectification f (plural rectifications)

1. rectification

Related terms

• rectifier

Further reading

• “rectification” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• certification

English

Etymology

From French campagne, from Italian campagna (“field, military operation”), from Late Latin camp?nia (“open country, battlefield”), from Latin campus (“field”). Doublet of campagna and champagne.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kæm?pe?n/, /k?m?pe?n/
• Rhymes: -e?n

Noun

campaign (plural campaigns)

1. A series of operations undertaken to achieve a set goal.
2. The period during which a blast furnace is continuously in operation.
3. (obsolete) An open field; a large, open plain without considerable hills; a champaign.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Grath to this entry?)

4. (obsolete) An excursion into the countryside.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Hebrew: ??????? (kampéin)

Translations

Verb

campaign (third-person singular simple present campaigns, present participle campaigning, simple past and past participle campaigned)

1. (intransitive) To take part in a campaign.
2. (transitive) Consistently ride in races for a racing season.
   • 2014, Doug Boyce, Drag Racing's Quarter-Mile Warriors: Then & Now, chapter 1, 31:

     Ron campaigned the car for a couple seasons before selling it to Mark Danekas (Danekas blowers), who ran the car himself briefly before putting it on the market once again.

Translations

Anagrams

• pangamic, panmagic