rectify

verb (rectifies, rectifying, rectified)

• 1put right; correct:mistakes made now cannot be rectified later efforts to rectify the situation

• 2convert (alternating current) to direct current: the current from the transformers is rectified by high-voltage diodes (as adjective rectified)rectified AC power systems

• 3find a straight line equal in length to (a curve): his methods of rectifying the cycloid