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uniformize

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From uniform +‎ -ize.

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uniformize (third-person singular simple present uniformizes, present participle uniformizing, simple past and past participle uniformized)

  1. (transitive) To make uniform; to make the same throughout.
    • 1989 August 19, Bob Lederer, “Hiding Behind HIV”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 6, page 8:
      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.
  2. (mathematics) To carry out a process of uniformization, by which a multiple-valued function on a Riemann surface is converted to a single-valued function.
    • 2000, Ludwig Bieberbach, Conformal Mapping‎[1], →ISBN, page 198:
      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.

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uniformize

  1. inflection of uniformizar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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