standardisation

1. 1.

   the condition in which a standard has been successfully established

   “standardization of nuts and bolts had saved industry millions of dollars”

   Synonymsstandardization

   Broadercondition
2. 2.

   the imposition of standards or regulations

   “a committee was appointed to recommend terminological standardization”

   Synonymsstandardizationnormalizationnormalisation

   Broadersocial control

   Narrowerstabilizationstylization
3. 3.

   the act of checking or adjusting (by comparison with a standard) the accuracy of a measuring instrument

   “the thermometer needed calibration”

   Synonymscalibrationstandardization

   Broaderactivity

   Narrowertuningadjustment

Other forms of standardisation

plural

standardisations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about standardisation

What does standardisation mean?

standardisation means "the condition in which a standard has been successfully established". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in standardisation?

standardisation has 6 syllables: stan-dar-di-sa-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for standardisation?

Close synonyms include standardization, standardization, normalization, normalisation, calibration. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is standardisation a common word?

standardisation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.