whitenization

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noun

The process, or the result, of whitenizing.

Scrabble 28

Meanings

nounwhitenization (countable and uncountable, plural whitenizations)

plural whitenizations

  1. 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 12
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    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
  2. 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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