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standardize, v.|ˈstændədaɪz|
[f. standard n. and a. + -ize.]
1. trans. To bring to a standard or uniform size, strength, form of construction, proportion of ingredients, or the like.
1873C. H. Ralfe Outl. Physiol. Chem. 225 This solution must be standardized. 1889Daily News 20 June 6/3 The supply of electrical energy under statutory powers could not be effectively carried out unless there was some method of standardising the meters and other instruments. 1904Brit. Med. Jrnl. 10 Sept. 564 The emulsion was always made up to a uniform strength..by standardizing it against an arbitrarily-chosen standard bacterial suspension. 1907[see stably adv.].
b. transf.
1900M. Crackanthorpe in 19th Cent. Jan. 103 (title), Can sentences be standardised? 190619th Cent. June 990 Legislation is, to use an engineering expression, being standardised. 1911F. Harrison Autobiog. Mem. II. xxxvii. 314 Life and Society have been standardised.
2. To test by a standard.
1881Nature 3 Nov. 17/2 This other mode of measurement should be standardised..by comparison with Mr. Harcourt's air-gas flame, which should alone be taken as the official standard. 1898Longm. Mag. Nov. 69 To standardise the poisonous principle contained in it [eel's blood].
3. (See quot. 1890.)
1889Tablet 2 Nov. 688 For each instrument two plates will be standardised. 1890Anthony's Photogr. Bull. III. 158 The Lick observatory plates were ‘standardized.’ That is, a portion of each plate was impressed with the light from a standard lamp shining for a known time through a small hole at a known distance.
Hence ˈstandardized ppl. a.; ˈstandardizing vbl. n. (also attrib.).
1884Times 14 Aug. 3 Standardized laudanum. 1889Daily News 20 June 4/7 To advocate the establishment of an electrical standardizing laboratory. 1892Ibid. 31 Mar. 6/8 The Electric Standardising, Testing, and Training Institution. 1913Contemp. Rev. Dec. 776 Standardised voting cards are provided by the respective candidates.
Add:[1.] c. intr. Esp. const. on: to adopt as one's standard.
1916H. G. Wells Mr. Britling I. i. 16 They had standardized and machined wholesale, while the British were still making the things one by one. 1946Du Bois & Pribble Plastics Mold Engin. 353 It is common practice to standardize on the size and design of the transfer chamber and plunger used with hand molds. 1958Listener 21 Aug. 259/2 The next big stumbling block is to get all the airlines to agree to standardise on this navigation system. 1970Daily Tel. 24 Oct. 13 Their airlines are trying to standardise on American-engined planes. 1989Nature 11 May 82/2 That the Ministry of Education should have decided to standardize on computers with TRON architecture is easily understood. |