Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To make homogeneous.
- intransitive verb To reduce to particles and disperse throughout a fluid.
- intransitive verb To make uniform in consistency, especially to render (milk) uniform in consistency by emulsifying the fat content.
- intransitive verb To become homogenized.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make homogeneous; mix evenly, as several ingredients; reduce to an even standard.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To blend (a collection of unlike elements) together so as to make the whole uniform in character, composition, or function.
- transitive verb To blend separated liquids together so as to form a uniform emulsion which does not separate out into its original constituents on standing; -- used especially of milk.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To make
homogenous , toblend orpuree . - verb Specifically, to treat
milk so that thecream no longer separates.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb break up the fat globules of
- verb cause to become equal or homogeneous as by mixing
- verb become homogeneous or similar, as by mixing
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It was also the job of Sejanes and An'desha to "homogenize" the incoming energies by mixing them, for a flood of only one kind might do the same thing.
Storm Breaking Lackey, Mercedes 1996
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It was also the job of Sejanes and An'desha to "homogenize" the incoming energies by mixing them, for a flood of only one kind might do the same thing.
Storm Breaking Lackey, Mercedes 1996
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The three groups take raw data, and they "homogenize" it to remove temperature discrepancy's that occur when a station is moved to a warmer or colder location.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] DerekE 2010
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The three groups take raw data, and they "homogenize" it to remove temperature discrepancies that occur when a station is moved to a warmer or colder location.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Dfrischknecht 2010
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The three groups take raw data, and they "homogenize" it to remove temperature discrepancy's that occur when a station is moved to a warmer or colder location.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] DerekE 2010
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The three groups take raw data, and they "homogenize" it to remove temperature discrepancy's that occur when a station is moved to a warmer or colder location.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] DerekE 2010
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The three groups take raw data, and they "homogenize" it to remove temperature discrepancy's that occur when a station is moved to a warmer or colder location.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] DerekE 2010
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The three groups take raw data, and they "homogenize" it to remove temperature discrepancy'st hat occur when a station is moved to a warmer or colder location.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Dfrischknecht 2010
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An increasing body of evidence suggests that the methods used to "homogenize" global temperature data were very effectively adding a warming bias to that data - a "thumb on the scale" that appears to account for a good bit of the observed warming.
Pajamas Media Charlie Martin 2010
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The three groups take raw data, and they "homogenize" it to remove temperature discrepanciest hat occur when a station is moved to a warmer or colder location.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Dfrischknecht 2010
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