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means The act of fixing or cleaning up damage or harm — correcting a problem, often an environmental or technical one, through deliberate corrective action.

from From Latin remediare, 'to heal or cure,' built from re- ('again') plus mederi ('to heal, to give medical attention') — the same root that gives us 'remedy.' So at its core the word simply means 'to apply a cure again,' which is fitting: remediation is medicine's logic applied to oil spills, toxic soil, and broken code alike.