(v. t.) To make or set right; to correct from a wrong, erroneous, or false state; to amend; as, to rectify errors, mistakes, or abuses; to rectify the will, the judgment, opinions; to rectify disorders.
(v. t.) To refine or purify by repeated distillation or sublimation, by which the fine parts of a substance are separated from the grosser; as, to rectify spirit of wine.
(v. t.) To produce ( as factitious gin or brandy) by redistilling low wines or ardent spirits (whisky, rum, etc.), flavoring substances, etc., being added.
Example Sentences:
(1) A sample of 154 randomly selected, full-wave rectified and filtered electromyographic recordings was evaluated using a test-retest paradigm.
(2) At low concentrations, the current-voltage relations are inwardly rectifying, but they become more ohmic if a small amount of divalent cations is added externally.
(3) A voltage-sensitive K+ channel with characteristics of the delayed rectifier was studied in NG108-15 cells using the cell-attached patch-clamp technique.
(4) -57 mV) induced a large voltage-dependent inward current which has been identified as the K current through the anomalous rectifier (Ianomal.).
(5) Single atrial myocytes were enzymatically isolated from the bull-frog as previously described (Hume & Giles, 1981), and patch-clamp techniques were used in an attempt to identify and separate two inwardly rectifying K+ channels in this tissue.
(6) Neither a steady-state component (Is-s) nor a slowly activated component (Irise) of inward rectifier currents were observed in fibres of P0 and P4 mice.
(7) Opioid activation of the inward rectifying conductance resulted in small outward potassium currents at resting membrane potentials and increased inward currents at hyperpolarized potentials.
(8) The dependence of the current activation and inactivation on the membrane potential was consistent with that of a delayed K+ rectifier.
(9) If such errors are to be rectified systematically to provide a sustainable improvement in field placement accuracy over a course of treatment, the origins of the errors require unambiguous identification.
(10) Therapy depends upon determining the precise etiology for the fall and rectifying contributing factors.
(11) A channel exhibiting fast, voltage-dependent transitions between different conductance states may behave as an intrinsic rectifier.
(12) These results showed that some of the organic compounds released by cells during regulatory volume decrease could diffuse through this outwardly rectifying anionic channel.
(13) Treatment with recombinant human TNF-alpha (rhTNF) for 24 to 72 hr produces (i) process retraction in some but not all OLGs, (ii) a reduction in the resting membrane potential with no significant change in membrane capacitance or input resistance over control cells and (iii) a decrease in the expression of both the inwardly rectifying and outward K+ current.
(14) "And charging citizens to hold power to account is not the way to rectify an existing imbalance or promote a more meaningful democracy."
(15) Edi was recorded by an esophageal electrode, rectified, and then integrated, and peak values during inspiration were measured.
(16) Nothing I can say will rectify that,” said Reid, who worked for the Metropolitan police service’s specialist search unit for 26 years, before retiring in 2011.
(17) To rectify the situation, we adapted the anchored polymerase chain reaction to clone and analyze rapidly the expressed V genes for three anti-virus IgG antibodies.
(18) Retailers work very quickly to rectify these mistakes whenever they are found."
(19) The inward rectifier in lens has the necessary properties to be involved in setting resting voltage.
(20) The effects of intracellular pH on an inwardly rectifying K+ channel ("Kin channel") in opossum kidney (OK) cells were examined using the patch-clamp technique.
Redress
Definition:
(v. t.) To dress again.
(v. t.) To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise.
(v. t.) To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.
(v. t.) To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.
(n.) The act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment.
(n.) A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or opression; as, the redress of grievances; hence, relief; remedy; reparation; indemnification.
(n.) One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.
Example Sentences:
(1) The government also faced considerable international political pressure, with the United Nations' special rapporteur on torture, Juan Méndez, calling publicly on the government to "provide full redress to the victims, including fair and adequate compensation", and writing privately to David Cameron, along with two former special rapporteurs, to warn that the government's position was undermining its moral authority across the world.
(2) The proposed new law gives victims of violence access to redress and protection, including restraining orders, and it requires local governments to set up more shelters.
(3) He made his political base in this western province, which has long felt sneered at: Harper has spent his political career redressing the balance.
(4) We deeply regret any instance which led to the Financial Ombudsman Service receiving incorrect or incomplete information from us.” Clydesdale is now reviewing all PPI complaints handled before August 2014 and will pay redress to any affected customers.
(5) It has a code setting out the high ethical standards of the best in British journalism, a complaints procedure which is easily accessible and fair, and real teeth to ensure protection and redress for citizens."
(6) First and foremost, if there are living victims of torture who seek redress from the British government they must be treated with dignity, no matter how long ago those abuses occurred.
(7) Our data appeared to indicate that messages on the four selected health topics were not being properly and accurately conveyed and suggestions aimed at redressing this situation were put forward.
(8) Our How to Rent guide helps tenants know their rights and responsibilities, and letting agents are now required to belong to a redress scheme so landlords and tenants have somewhere to go if they get a raw deal.” “This government has kept strong protections to guard families against the threat of homelessness.
(9) Dennis de Jong, managing director at UFX.com , said the chancellor “has a lot of work to do” to redress the trade deficit.
(10) Half a dozen times now they have produced elaborate redesigns of the old, discredited Press Complaints Commission , each subtly different but none delivering the simple, effective, independent redress that Leveson said was necessary.
(11) This concept has huge implications, in particular the need to redress the balance of two generations' legacy of car-based planning: the devastating effect on our inner city areas - which have seen a mass exodus to the suburbs - cannot be ignored.
(12) By January 2013, more than 70 Britons had contacted lawyers to seek redress .
(13) The right not to be imprisoned without a fair trial has become the centrepiece of respect for the rule of law all around the world, and yet, when Ms Lynch stated at Runnymede that the fundamental principles of the Magna Carta have “given hopes to those who face oppression” and have “given a voice to those yearning for the redress of wrongs,” it was impossible not to think of Shaker Aamer, and others in Guantánamo, also “yearning for the redress of wrongs,” but finding that yearning repeatedly unfulfilled.
(14) It said the issues were "major factors in the UK's poor productivity levels", and called for a workplace commission to redress what it said were three decades of misaligned skills policy.
(15) This part of the article directs attention to how the courts respond when a physician, aggrieved by an adverse determination with regard to appointment, reappointment, or clinical privileges (credentialing) by the hospital based on medical peer review, seeks redress in the courts.
(16) His plan to redress the balance: meeting the Emir .
(17) In outlining these two approaches, this article shows how both increasingly attend to the place of the mother to the neglect of the father in the genesis of anorexia--a shift of perspective somewhat redressed by systemic family therapy.
(18) Recent surveys show that the public – in Britain, and elsewhere – feel that it may be time to redress the balance.
(19) And so it makes sense that there was no redress for her son from a “justice” system that works hand in hand with the police who do the hunting.
(20) However the compensation element of the scheme offers no extra redress for clients who may have lost their life savings up to 11 years ago and suffered the knock-on effects to their cost of living, according to information given by the bank’s chief executive on Thursday.