uniformize

English

Alternative forms

• uniformise

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 *-íďďō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.

Late Latin -izōder.

Middle French -iserbor.

Middle English -isen

English -ize

English uniformize

From uniform + -ize.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈjunɪfɔɹˌmaɪz/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈjuːnɪfɔːˌmaɪz/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: uni‧form‧ize

Verb

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.

Derived terms

• uniformizable
• uniformization
• uniformizer

Translations

to make uniform

• French: uniformiser (fr)
• Spanish: uniformar (es)

(mathematics)

• Finnish: uniformisoida
• German: uniformisieren
• Polish: czynić równomiernym impf

See also

• uniformization (set theory) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Portuguese

Verb

uniformize

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