verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb

1. 1
   To depersonalize or anonymize (data); a procedure by which the most identifying fields within a data record are replaced by one or more artificial identifiers, or pseudonyms.

Synonyms

All synonyms

aliasesanonymisinganonymizeanonymized dataanonymized datasetmasked

Etymology

From pseudonym + -ize.