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marginalize en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ˈmɑɹdʒɪnəlaɪz/ (General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈmɑːdʒɪnəlaɪz/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Etymology tree English marginal 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 marginalize From marginal + -ize.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To relegate (something, especially a topic or a group of people) to the margins or to a lower limit; to exclude socially or otherwise.
   • The practice of only analysing Indian English in terms of how it differs from a notional standard English that resides in the Englishes of the varieties of the Inner Circle is one of the key ways in which Indian English is marginalised. 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 305:
2. To find a marginal distribution of a joint probability distribution.
   • Ideally, we would like to integrate out the parameters #92;theta, i.e. marginalize in order to obtain a prediction. Since this is again hard to realize analytically, one usually approximates the integral via sampling from the posterior. 2021, Nils Thuerey, Philipp Holl, Maximilian Mueller, Patrick Schnell, Felix Trost, Kiwon Um, chapter 25, in Physics-based Deep Learning, page 245:

Forms

Antonyms

prioritize · accept

Deriveds

remarginalize · marginalizer · demarginalize · marginalizable

Relateds

marginal · marginalization · marginalize out

Synonyms

sideline · peripheralize · invisibilize · alienate

Translations (16)

pl marginalizować (relegate something to margins or to a lower limit) · ru маргинализи́ровать (relegate something to margins or to a lower limit) · it emarginare (relegate something to margins or to a lower limit) · de exkludieren (relegate something to margins or to a lower limit) · fr marginaliser (relegate something to margins or to a lower limit) · cmn 邊緣化 /边缘化 (relegate something to margins or to a lower limit) · pt marginalizar (relegate something to margins or to a lower limit) · nl marginaliseren (relegate something to margins or to a lower limit) · el περιθωριοποιώ (relegate something to margins or to a lower limit) · de marginalisieren (relegate something to margins or to a lower limit) · es marginar (relegate something to margins or to a lower limit) · sk marginalizovať (relegate something to margins or to a lower limit) · da marginalisere (relegate something to margins or to a lower limit) · fi syrjäyttää (relegate something to margins or to a lower limit) · uk маргіналізува́ти (relegate something to margins or to a lower limit) · ja 疎外する (relegate something to margins or to a lower limit)