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Electrical device that transforms alternating into direct current
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rectifier
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rectifier \Rec"ti*fi`er\ (r?k"t?*f?`?r), n. One who, or that which, rectifies. Specifically: (Naut.) An instrument used for determining and rectifying the variations of the compass on board ship. (Chem.) A rectificator.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In the context of artificial neural networks , the rectifier is an activation function defined as f ( x ) = max(0, x ), where x is the input to a neuron. This is also known as a ramp function and is analogous to half-wave rectification in electrical engineering. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, agent noun from rectify .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Something that rectifies. 2 A device that converts alternating current into direct current; often a diode. 3 (context nautical English) An instrument used for determining and rectifying the variations of the compass on board ship.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. electrical device that transforms alternating into direct current a person who corrects or sets right; "a rectifier of prejudices"
Usage examples of rectifier.
Love walked from the old chapterhouse of saint Mary's abbey past James and Charles Kennedy's, rectifiers, attended by Geraldines tall and personable, towards the Tholsel beyond the ford of hurdles.
He went down to the workshop directly he got home and took the little bronze sphere of the automatic pilot from the bench and packed it carefully away in rags in an old cigar box with its tiny transistor rectifier and the delicate relays, clearing the decks for a more mundane job, and started work upon the handlebars.
In the late fifties, Alfvén had been called in by the Swedish power company ASEA to investigate a problem they were having with explosions in mercury arc rectifiers used in the transmission grid.
The rectifiers used a low-pressure mercury vapor cell containing a current-carrying plasma.
The pipes he recognized as wires from the mains transformer secondary winding, feeding the rectifiers and d.