Meanings
present singular third person standardizates · participle present standardizating · participle past standardizated · past standardizated
- nonstandardraretransitivechiefly non-native speakers' EnglishTo standardize.
Recently we have received a letter from the World Xiangqi Federation about standardizating the various Xiangqi rules for the WXF.
1994 January 22, Elton Yuen, “Standard Version of Xiangqi Rules”, in rec.games.chinese-chess (Usenet), archived from the original on 07 Jul 20262 more examples
> The purpose of Java is to be a write once.run anywhere environmnet.^([sic]) I don't think so. If they wanted that, they'd have standardizated the thing, and stopped churning it.
2001 July 28, Daniel Johnson, “More micro$oft "customer service"”, in comp.os.linux.advocacy (Usenet), archived from the original on 07 Jul 2026I see that you people are heavily arguing about compatibility between bind zone files and djbdns'. Why don't you start a non-profit organisation for standardizating zone files for nameservers and even config files. I see no use in arguing which nameserver is the best, as long as you don't state your exact needs and expectations from such.
2002 November 21, Statu Nascendi, “DNS servers”, in linux.debian.isp (Usenet), archived from the original on 07 Jul 2026
Origin
Back-formation from standardization.
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