Meanings
plural whitenizations
- countableuncountableThe process, or the result, of whitenizing.
[…] that one may speak, now, of a considerable de-Europeanization, in certain social and cultural aspects, of Latin America, as well as of a de-whitenization, in racial terms, of its population.
1966, Gilberto Freyre, The racial factor in contemporary politics, page 121 more example
One of them recently lectured in Bangalore and spoke of the blackness of Christ and of how, ' In the history of Western painting the depiction of Christ evidences his progressive whitenization or bleaching with the object of changing him from a Semitic to an Aryan person.
1975, Richard Warren Taylor, Jesus in Indian paintings, page 7 - countableuncountablemathematicsThe calculation of a weighted average over all possible values of a quantity that is only known down to an interval, as opposed to a precise value.
The clustering decision-making method has been proposed based on the grey interval incidence coefficient and a pre-set class number by making use of the grey whitenization function.
2010, Sifeng Liu, Advances in Grey Systems Research, page 48
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