Straight; right; correct.
Latin rectus, straight.
Examples are rectify, to put right or correct; rectitude, morally correct behaviour or thinking; rectangle (Latin angulus, an angle), a plane figure with four straight lines and four right angles; rectilinear (Latin linea, line), consisting of or moving in a straight line.
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