English

Alternative forms

• uniformise

Verb

uniformize ‎(third-person singular simple present uniformizes, present participle uniformizing, simple past and past participle uniformized)

1. To make uniform.
   • 2004, Toivo Miljan, Historical Dictionary of Estonia, ISBN 0810849046, page 294:

     ... who in vivid contrast to Kabin pursued a deliberate policy of Russification and uniformization with the rest of the Soviet Union.

2. (mathematics) To carry out a process of uniformization, by which a multiple-valued function on a Riemann surface is converted to a single-valued function.
   • 2000, Ludwig Bieberbach, Conformal Mapping, ISBN 0821821059, page 198:

     It is clear that these functions are also the only ones to be uniformized by the simple mapping of the Riemann surface, for of course any function that is single-valued in t must have been, before the mapping, a single-valued function on the Riemann surface.

Derived terms

• uniformizable
• uniformization

See also

• uniformization (set theory) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Portuguese

Verb

uniformize

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of uniformizar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of uniformizar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of uniformizar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of uniformizar