RECTIFIER


Meaning of RECTIFIER in English

/rek"teuh fuy'euhr/ , n.

1. a person or thing that rectifies.

2. Elect. an apparatus in which current flows more readily in one direction than the other, for changing an alternating current into a direct current.

3. the apparatus that in distillation separates the most volatile material by condensing it; condenser.

[ 1605-15; RECTIFY + -ER 1 ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .