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Standardize

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To cause to conform to a standard.

v. To evaluate by comparing with a standard.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. Alternative spelling of standardise.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To reduce to a normal standard; to calculate or adjust the strength of, by means of, and for uses in, analysis.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To conform to or compare with a standard; regulate by a standard; constitute or recognize as a standard; specifically, in chemical analysis, to determine accurately in order to use what is so determined as a standard of comparison: said of the strength of a solution, or the quantity of a certain reagent contained in a given volume of it. Also spelled standardise.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. cause to conform to standard or norm

v. evaluate by comparing with a standard

Word Usage

"The whole idea of accelerating expansion and dark matter is based on data that we think we understand, but we may be trying to "standardize" something that may be wildly variable."

Verb Form

standardized standardizes standardizing

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

evaluate measure value assess valuate

Form

standardization

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

regularize

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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