Dictionary

anonymization en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Hellenic *ə- Ancient Greek ἀν- (an-) Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ Proto-Hellenic *ónomə Ancient Greek ὄνυμα (ónuma) Ancient Greek ἀνώνυμος (anṓnumos)bor. Late Latin anonymusbor. English anonymous Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English anonymize Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English anonymization From anonymize + -ation.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The act or process of making anonymous, of hiding or disguising identity.
   • This anonymization site is supposed to keep emails from being tracked back to you.
   • This institutional and research caution is partly due to the fact that oral data is harder to anonymise than written data, and partly in recognition of the fact that in the future anonymisation will become increasingly harder as the application of AI to speech recognition continues to improve. 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 11:

Forms

Deriveds

deanonymization

Relateds

anonymizer

Translations (13)

pl anonimizacja (act of making anonymous) · pt anonimização (act of making anonymous) · fr anonymisation (act of making anonymous) · la anōnymizātiō (act of making anonymous) · ms penganonimusan (act of making anonymous) · ca anonimització (act of making anonymous) · ms penanpanamaan (act of making anonymous) · sv anonymisering (act of making anonymous) · es anonimización (act of making anonymous) · de Anonymisierung (act of making anonymous) · ms anonimisasi (act of making anonymous) · nl anonimisering (act of making anonymous) · it anonimizzazione (act of making anonymous)