单词	rationalization
释义	rationalization /raʃ(ə)n(ə)lʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n / noun [mass noun] 1The action of attempting to explain or justify behaviour or an attitude with logical reasons, even if these are not appropriate: most people are prone to self-deceptive rationalization [count noun]: they justify themselves with ingenious rationalizations... No rationalization that human beings give for their cruelty or neglect is ever meaningful to him. My preferred rationalisation for this is that the films are too long for me to concentrate all the way through. Let's talk about some of the rationalizations for war. 2British The action of making a company, process, or industry more efficient, especially by dispensing with superfluous personnel or equipment: the London dockers struggle to preserve their jobs against ruthless rationalization... The company had to go into a major rationalization program of its manufacturing facilities and product portfolio. Under economic rationalization women are the first to lose their official jobs. Globalisation and economic rationalisation driven by multinational companies is seen by workers as the most serious threat to their standard of living. 2.1The action of reorganizing a process or system so as to make it more logical and consistent: the rationalization of accounting standards... This has tied in well with the rationalisation of the booking process. The rationalisation of these practices was always the same. This is nothing more than a rationalization of current social structures, all of which systematically oppress the interests of women, minorities and the poor. 3 Mathematics The process of converting a function or expression to a rational form.By using the conjugate, I can do the necessary rationalization.... In complex number algebra, rationalization is the equivalent of the simplification of fractions in ordinary algebra. Thus V3 x v3 = 3, so multiplication by v3 is rationalization of V3.
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