uniformize
verbUS /ˈjunɪfɔɹˌmaɪz/ · UK /ˈjuːnɪfɔːˌmaɪz/
Etymology From uniform + -ize.
1
To make uniform; to make the same throughout.
- 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.1989 August 19, Bob Lederer, “Hiding Behind HIV”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 6, page 8:
2
Mathematics, Sciences To carry out a process of uniformization, by which a multiple-valued function on a Riemann surface is converted to a single-valued function.
- 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.2000, Ludwig Bieberbach, Conformal Mapping, →ISBN, page 198:
- Derived terms
- uniformizable, uniformization, uniformizer