ultrametricize

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verb

To make ultrametric.

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Meanings

verbultrametricize (third-person singular simple present ultrametricizes, present participle ultrametricizing, simple past and past participle ultrametricized)

present singular third person ultrametricizes · participle present ultrametricizing · participle past ultrametricized · past ultrametricized

  1. mathematicsTo make ultrametric.
    1 more example

    As no branch length information was available, we determined the most appropriate transformation to ultrametricize the tree correlating the absolute values of the standardized contrasts of ln brain size vs. the square root of the sum of the corrected branch lengths in PDAP/PDTree [67 ] in Mesquite 2.75 [68 ].

    2015 August 12, Dominika Chojnacka, Karin Isler, Jaroslaw Jerzy Barski, Redouan Bshary, “Relative Brain and Brain Part Sizes Provide Only Limited Evidence that Machiavellian Behaviour in Cleaner Wrasse Is Cognitively Demanding”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin

From ultrametric + -ize.

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ultrametricize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ultrametricize

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“ultrametricize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ultrametricize. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ultrametricize,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ultrametricize.

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