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uniformize en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ˈjuːnɪfɔːˌmaɪz/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈjunɪfɔɹˌmaɪz/ (General-American)
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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos Proto-Italic *oinos Old Latin oinos Latin ūnus Latin ūni- Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ)der.? Latin fōrma Latin -fōrmis Latin uniformis Middle French uniformebor. English uniform 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 uniformize From uniform + -ize.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To make uniform; to make the same throughout.
   • The American Medical Association (AMA) was formed in 1845 to gain for medical doctors a monopoly on legal licensure as health practitioners. The young AMA waged fierce (and quite successful) battles to de-certify the then-dominant natural healers — a range of herbalists, midwives, and homeopathic doctors […] By the early 20th century, the AMA had secured powerful big-coporation ^([sic]) backing for its plan to uniformize legal requirements to practice medicine in every state. 1989 August 19, Bob Lederer, “Hiding Behind HIV”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 6, page 8:
2. To carry out a process of uniformization, by which a multiple-valued function on a Riemann surface is converted to a single-valued function.
   • It is clear that these functions are also the only ones to be uniformized by the simple mapping of the Riemann surface, for of course any function that is single-valued in t must have been, before the mapping, a single-valued function on the Riemann surface. 2000, Ludwig Bieberbach, Conformal Mapping, →ISBN, page 198:

Forms

Deriveds

uniformization · uniformizable · uniformizer

Translations (5)

de uniformisieren ((mathematics)) · es uniformar (to make uniform) · fr uniformiser (to make uniform) · fi uniformisoida ((mathematics)) · pl czynić równomiernym ((mathematics))