different between rectification vs replacement

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

replace +? -ment

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???ple?sm?nt/
• Rhymes: -e?sm?nt

Noun

replacement (countable and uncountable, plural replacements)

1. A person or thing that takes the place of another; a substitute.
2. The act of replacing something.

   The replacement of that broken light-bulb will have to wait until I can buy a new one.

3. The removal of an edge of crystal, by one plane or more.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:substitute

Derived terms

See also

• spare part

Translations

Further reading

• replacement on Wikipedia.Wikipedia