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standardization

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of standardizing, or the state of being standardized. Also spelled standardisation.

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  • noun The process of complying (or evaluate by comparing) with a standard.
  • noun The process of establishing a standard.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the act of checking or adjusting (by comparison with a standard) the accuracy of a measuring instrument
  • noun the imposition of standards or regulations
  • noun the condition in which a standard has been successfully established

Etymologies

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standardize +‎ -ation

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Examples

  • This standardization is always cited as “the way to get more people into the game.”

    Player Empowerment or Player Entitlement? « Geek Related 2010

  • Whether or not this view of government’s role in standardization is appropriate today, state adoption of a terrestrial DTV standard – and the promulgation of accompanying regulations – continues to be the international norm.

    New Digital Restriction regime 2005

  • HOW are we going to encourage excellent teachers when tying their hands through mind numbing standardization is slowly killing their creativity?

    Mrs. Mimi: Teachers are Waiting for Something, That's for Sure Mrs. Mimi 2010

  • Name standardization is … if not a myth, exactly, then a pleasant oversimplification.

    Godwin’s law: NEW RECORD « Love | Peace | Ohana 2007

  • While efforts have been made to standardize the link level communication protocols used for deep space exploration, further standardization is required.

    Internet - Mirror of Mankind 2002

  • We are adopting U.S. pattern equipment as a practical step in standardization, about which there has been too much talk and much too little done.

    Men—Materials—Money for Canada's Defence 1951

  • By the long experience we have gained in this engineering work, we have discovered little by little the peculiar technique, because after all, standardization is 85 per cent. human, and it is the human factor which is the most refractory part of the work.

    Empire Trade Requires Uniform Standards 1932

  • Cultural globalization is usually defined as the standardization of world culture that enables different cultures to acquire cultural products from one another.

    unknown title 2009

  • Now, with global hegemony almost completely assured, its time to complete the process of world 'standardization' -- the global society is to be a fascistic-at-the-top, sovietized-at-the-bottom system, where the larger part of the population it to be kept in slavery conditions, managed by a technocratic and military managerial structure.

    WN.com - Business News 2010

  • Now, with global hegemony almost completely assured, its time to complete the process of world 'standardization' -- the global society is to be a fascistic-at-the-top, sovietized-at-the-bottom system, where the larger part of the population it to be kept in slavery conditions, managed by a technocratic and military managerial structure.

    WN.com - Business News 2010

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