Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To make homogeneous.
  • intransitive verb To reduce to particles and disperse throughout a fluid.
  • intransitive verb To make uniform in consistency, especially to render (milk) uniform in consistency by emulsifying the fat content.
  • intransitive verb To become homogenized.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To make homogeneous; mix evenly, as several ingredients; reduce to an even standard.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To blend (a collection of unlike elements) together so as to make the whole uniform in character, composition, or function.
  • transitive verb To blend separated liquids together so as to form a uniform emulsion which does not separate out into its original constituents on standing; -- used especially of milk.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To make homogenous, to blend or puree.
  • verb Specifically, to treat milk so that the cream no longer separates.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb break up the fat globules of
  • verb cause to become equal or homogeneous as by mixing
  • verb become homogeneous or similar, as by mixing

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From homogeneous.]

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Examples

  • It was also the job of Sejanes and An'desha to "homogenize" the incoming energies by mixing them, for a flood of only one kind might do the same thing.

    Storm Breaking Lackey, Mercedes 1996

  • It was also the job of Sejanes and An'desha to "homogenize" the incoming energies by mixing them, for a flood of only one kind might do the same thing.

    Storm Breaking Lackey, Mercedes 1996

  • The three groups take raw data, and they "homogenize" it to remove temperature discrepancy's that occur when a station is moved to a warmer or colder location.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] DerekE 2010

  • The three groups take raw data, and they "homogenize" it to remove temperature discrepancies that occur when a station is moved to a warmer or colder location.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Dfrischknecht 2010

  • The three groups take raw data, and they "homogenize" it to remove temperature discrepancy's that occur when a station is moved to a warmer or colder location.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] DerekE 2010

  • The three groups take raw data, and they "homogenize" it to remove temperature discrepancy's that occur when a station is moved to a warmer or colder location.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] DerekE 2010

  • The three groups take raw data, and they "homogenize" it to remove temperature discrepancy's that occur when a station is moved to a warmer or colder location.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] DerekE 2010

  • The three groups take raw data, and they "homogenize" it to remove temperature discrepancy'st hat occur when a station is moved to a warmer or colder location.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Dfrischknecht 2010

  • An increasing body of evidence suggests that the methods used to "homogenize" global temperature data were very effectively adding a warming bias to that data - a "thumb on the scale" that appears to account for a good bit of the observed warming.

    Pajamas Media Charlie Martin 2010

  • The three groups take raw data, and they "homogenize" it to remove temperature discrepanciest hat occur when a station is moved to a warmer or colder location.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Dfrischknecht 2010

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