rectification

[ rek-tuh-fi-key-shuh n ]

/ ˌrɛk tə fɪˈkeɪ ʃən /

the act of rectifying, or the fact of being rectified.

Astrology. the method by which the known times of major events in one's life are used to determine an unknown time of birth.

Origin of rectification

1425–75; late Middle English; < Middle French < Late Latin rectificātiōn-, stem of rectificātiō. See rectify, -fication

U.S.-China relations could certainly stand a little Confucian “rectification.”

Find a China Reset Button |Orville Schell |June 7, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
The error has been acknowledged, and its rectification is in the works.

Israel To Return Farmland To Palestinian Owners |Emily L. Hauser |February 20, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
The great Chinese philosopher Confucius put forward a timeless and important doctrine: The rectification of names.

Yousef Munayyer Responds to His Critics |Yousef Munayyer |March 30, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
Important as were their actual discoveries, their rectification of the errors of their predecessors were of yet greater value.

Celebrated Travels and Travellers |Jules Verne

As they grow older they rectify their judgments, and such a rectification Judith had now to make.

In the Roar of the Sea |Sabine Baring-Gould
The thick matter left in the retort after the rectification of oil of amber; and which it resembles in its properties.

Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I |Arnold Cooley
Not so sure that my optimist view is not open to rectification!

Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99., December 6, 1890 |Various
The operation being concluded, the whole may be allowed to cool, and the acid collected preparatory to rectification.

Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I |Arnold Cooley