Homogenize

//həˈmɒdʒənaɪz// verb

verb ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To make homogeneous, to blend or puree.
  2. 2
    cause to become equal or homogeneous as by mixing wordnet
  3. 3
    Specifically, to treat milk so that the cream no longer separates.
  4. 4
    become homogeneous or similar, as by mixing wordnet
  5. 5
    To make homogeneous or uniform.

    "While we neither refute nor endorse this contention of arrival at a more inclusive postmodernity, our analyses seek to explore the strange agencies that neoliberalism has set into motion under the banner of ablenationalism: first in a discussion of a backlash against the homogenizing implications of universal disability access design in cities and national monuments addressed by the contemporary European art theorist Paul Virilio, and in the complaints about paving over U.S. national parklands by American desert environmentalist Edward Abbey."

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  1. 6
    break up the fat globules of wordnet

Example

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"The Angara-V pulsed power facility used polystyrene to homogenize x-ray flux."

Etymology

From homogen(eous) + -ize.

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