standardization

English

Alternative forms

• standardisation

Etymology

From standardize +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌstæn.də.daɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌstæn.dɚˌdaɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, [ˌstɛən.dɚˌdaɪˈzeɪ.ʃn̩]
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌstæn.də.dɑɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/

Noun

standardization (countable and uncountable, plural standardizations)

1. The process of complying (or evaluate by comparing) with a standard.
2. The process of establishing a standard.
   • 1976, Boating (volume 40, numbers 1-2, page 152)

     The FCC says it decided to attempt standardization of VHF receivers after getting "thousands of complaints" from disgruntled boatmen who found their sets brought in mostly a lot of garble and static.

Derived terms

• age standardization

 

Related terms

• standard issue
• standardness

 

Translations

process of complying with a standard

• Asturian: estandarización f
• Belarusian: стандартыза́цыя f (standartyzácyja)
• Bulgarian: стандартиза́ция (bg) f (standartizácija)
• Cebuano: estandardisasyon
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 標準化 / 标准化 (zh) (biāozhǔnhuà)

• French: standardisation (fr) f
• Galician: estandarización (gl)
• German: Standardisierung (de) f
• Greek: τυποποίηση (el) f (typopoíisi)
• Indonesian: standardisasi (id)
• Italian: standardizzazione (it) f
• Japanese: 標準化 (ja) (ひょうじゅんか, hyōjunka)
• Kazakh: стандарттау (standarttau)
• Khmer: បមាណីយកម្ម (pak marn ney yak kam), ធម្មនិយាមកម្ម (dhamma niyeam kam)
• Korean: 표준화(標準化) (pyojunhwa)
• Portuguese: padronização (pt) f, estandardização f (Brazil, proscribed), standardização (Portugal, proscribed)
• Romanian: standardizare (ro) f
• Russian: стандартиза́ция (ru) f (standartizácija)
• Spanish: estandarización f, normalización f
• Swedish: standardisering (sv) c
• Tagalog: sapamantayan
• Ukrainian: стандартиза́ція f (standartyzácija)
• Vietnamese: tiêu chuẩn hoá (vi) (標準化), sự tiêu chuẩn hoá (vi)
• Welsh: safoniad m

process of establishing a standard

• Asturian: estandarización f
• Belarusian: стандартыза́цыя f (standartyzácyja)
• Cebuano: estandardisasyon
• Czech: standardizace f
• French: standardisation (fr) f
• German: Standardisierung (de) f
• Greek: τυποποίηση (el) f (typopoíisi)
• Italian: standardizzazione (it) f
• Japanese: 標準化 (ja) (ひょうじゅんか, hyōjunka)
• Polish: standaryzacja (pl) f, normotwórstwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: padronização (pt) f, estandardização f (Brazil, proscribed), standardização (Portugal, proscribed)
• Russian: стандартиза́ция (ru) f (standartizácija)
• Spanish: estandarización f
• Swedish: standardisering (sv) c
• Ukrainian: стандартиза́ція f (standartyzácija)
• Welsh: safoniad m

See also

• normalization
• unification
• uniformity