Medical Dictionary
standardize
vt stan·dard·ize
stan·dard·ized also British stan·dard·isedstan·dard·iz·ing also British stan·dard·is·ing
Medical Definition of STANDARDIZE
1
: to reduce to or compare with a standard <standardize a solution>
2
: to bring into conformity with a standard
3
: to arrange or order the component items of a test (as of intelligence or personality) so that the probability of their eliciting a designated class of response varies with some quantifiable psychological or behavioral attribute, function, or characteristic
—stan·dard·iza·tion also British stan·dard·isa·tion \ˌstan-dərd-ə-ˈzā-shən\ noun
Variants of STANDARDIZE
stan·dard·ize also British stan·dard·ise \ˈstan-dərd-ˌīz\
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