2. To gain new supplies of men for military or other service; to raise or enlist new soldiers; to enlist troops.
Recruit
(Re*cruit"), n.
1. A supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a reënforcement.
The state is to have recruits to its strength, and remedies to its distempers.
Burke. 2. Specifically, a man enlisted for service in the army; a newly enlisted soldier.
Recruiter
(Re*cruit"er), n. One who, or that which, recruits.
Recruitment
(Re*cruit"ment) n. The act or process of recruiting; especially, the enlistment of men for an
army.
Recrystallization
(Re*crys`tal*li*za"tion) n. (Chem. & Min.) The process or recrystallizing.
Recrystallize
(Re*crys"tal*lize) v. i. & t. (Chem. & Min.) To crystallize again. Henry.
Rectal
(Rec"tal) a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the rectum; in the region of the rectum.
Rectangle
(Rec"tan`gle) n. [F., fr. L. rectus right + angulus angle. See Right, and Angle.] (Geom.)
A four-sided figure having only right angles; a right-angled parallelogram.
As the area of a rectangle is expressed by the product of its two dimensions, the term rectangle is
sometimes used for product; as, the rectangle of a and b, that is, ab.
Rectangle
(Rec"tan`gle), a. Rectangular. [R.]
Rectangled
(Rec"tan`gled) a. Rectangular. Hutton.
Rectangular
(Rec*tan"gu*lar) a. [CF. F. rectangulaire.] Right-angled; having one or more angles of
ninety degrees. — Rec*tan"gu*lar*ly adv. — Rec*tan"gu*lar*ness, n.
Rectangularity
(Rec*tan`gu*lar"i*ty) n. The quality or condition of being rectangular, or right- angled.
Recti-
(Rec"ti-) [L. rectus straight.] A combining form signifying straight; as, rectilineal, having straight
lines; rectinerved.
Rectifiable
(Rec"ti*fi`a*ble) a.
1. Capable of being rectified; as, a rectifiable mistake.
2. (Math.) Admitting, as a curve, of the construction of a straight le equal in length to any definite portion
of the curve.
Rectification
(Rec`ti*fi*ca"tion) n. [Cf. F. rectification.]
1. The act or operation of rectifying; as, the rectification of an error; the rectification of spirits.
After the rectification of his views, he was incapable of compromise with profounder shapes of error.
De
Quincey. 2. (Geom.) The determination of a straight line whose length is equal a portion of a curve.
Rectification of a globe (Astron.), its adjustment preparatory to the solution of a proposed problem.
