Dictionary

regularization en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

Etymology tree English regular 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 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 -ization English regularization From regular + -ization.

Meanings

1. (British, English, Oxford, US, countable, uncountable) The act of making regular, of regularizing.
   • The history of the regularization of rivers, both in Russia and in Western Europe, hardly shows us anything but failures. 1881, S. Janicki, A. Pasqueau, L. Jacquet, translated by William Emery Merrill, Improvement of Non-tidal Rivers: Memoirs, Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 17:
2. (British, English, Oxford, US, countable, uncountable) a process that simplifies results, often used to obtain results for ill-posed problems or to prevent overfitting.
   • A large regularization parameter may over-smoothen the solution, while a small regularization parameter may lose the ability to stabilize the solution. 2020 March 30, Ratinan Boonklurb, Ampol Duangpan, Phansphitcha Gugaew, “Numerical Solution of Direct and Inverse Problems for Time-Dependent Volterra Integro-Differential Equation Using Finite Integration Method with Shifted Chebyshev Polynomials”, in Symmetry, volume 12, number 4, →DOI:

Forms

Deriveds

Tikhonov regularization · Hadamard regularization · overregularization

Translations (22)

cmn 正則化 /正则化 (the act of regularizing) · cy rheoleiddiad (the act of regularizing) · nl regularisatie (the act of regularizing) · sv regularisering (the act of regularizing) · uk регуляризація (the act of regularizing) · kk регулярлау (the act of regularizing) · pt regularização (the act of regularizing) · es regularización (the act of regularizing) · fi säännöllistäminen (the act of regularizing) · da regularisering (the act of regularizing) · no regularisering (the act of regularizing) · pl regularyzacja (the act of regularizing) · fr régularisation (the act of regularizing) · de Regularisierung (the act of regularizing) · ca regularització (the act of regularizing) · ru регуляриза́ция (the act of regularizing) · cs regularizace (the act of regularizing) · nl regularisering (the act of regularizing) · sk regularizácia (the act of regularizing) · gl regularización (the act of regularizing) · oc regularizacion (the act of regularizing) · it regolarizzazione (the act of regularizing)