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ultrametric +‎ -ize

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ultrametricize (third-person singular simple present ultrametricizes, present participle ultrametricizing, simple past and past participle ultrametricized)

  1. (mathematics) To make ultrametric
    • 2015 August 12, “Relative Brain and Brain Part Sizes Provide Only Limited Evidence that Machiavellian Behaviour in Cleaner Wrasse Is Cognitively Demanding”, in PLOS ONE[1], →DOI:
      As no branch length information was available, we determined the most appropriate transformation to ultrametricize the tree correlating the absolute values of the standardized contrasts of ln brain size vs. the square root of the sum of the corrected branch lengths in PDAP/PDTree [67 ] in Mesquite 2.75 [68 ].
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