rectifier

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

REC'TIFIER, noun 1. One that corrects or amends. 2. One who refines a substance by repeated distiliation. 3. An instrument that shows the variations of the compass, and rectifies the course of a ship.
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