say it: stan-dur-di-ZAY-shuhn
standardization is a noun meaning "the condition in which a standard has been successfully established". It carries 3 recorded senses.
the condition in which a standard has been successfully established
“standardization of nuts and bolts had saved industry millions of dollars”
the imposition of standards or regulations
“a committee was appointed to recommend terminological standardization”
the act of checking or adjusting (by comparison with a standard) the accuracy of a measuring instrument
“the thermometer needed calibration”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for standardization come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.