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formalize Definition

for·mal·ize (fôrmə līz′)

transitive verb -·ized′, -·iz′·ing

  1. to give definite form to
  2. to make formal
  3. to make official, valid, etc. by use of an appropriate form to formalize an agreement

formalize Related Forms

for′·mali·za·tion noun

formalize Usage Examples

Object

  • notion: However, few attempts have been made at formalizing the notion of limited resources in process algebras for mobility and distribution.
  • relationship: Following the changes that were taking place in IiP UK, we decided to formalize the relationship.
  • agreement: We are prepared to formalize a bilateral test ban agreement with India.
  • language: Efforts to formalize the health care language must take account of the highly dynamic state of health care terminology.
  • process: However, the legislation will formalize the process by restricting the mobility of bearer shares.
  • knowledge: The tendency is to equate the creature ( or its habitat ) with one's formalized knowledge of it.

Subject

system: The refinement is based on conceptual models of the platforms involved as architectural styles, formalized by graph transformation systems.

Modifying Another Word

  • also: It not only included clinical skills, but also formalized the development of generic skills, such as communication and team working.
  • highly: When dealing with highly formalized sets of exchanges, like marriages, Bourdieu's analysis is thoroughly appropriate.
  • not: If your organization has not formalized its approach to compliance, you are at increasing risk for compliance violations and more.
  • now: Professor Ajit Shenoi said: ' I am delighted that we are now formalizing a long-standing working relationship.
  • simply: Critics say that Chomsky's grammar is simply formalizing what is still a mystery.
  • very: Finally it is also the case that inter-village friction is great and that tribal unity is dependent on very formalized relations between the villages.

Used with why or when

what: Critics say that Chomsky's grammar is simply formalizing what is still a mystery.

Present participle complement

  • accord: Learning designs can be represented graphically or formalized according to an information model.
  • exist: But the Yalta Agreement did not invent forced repatriation, it simply formalized existing policy.

Preposition: in

  • framework: First, an estimation of global posteriors is formalized in the framework of hybrid HMM/ANN systems.
  • deed: Mortgages must be formalized in a public deed of mortgage before a Public Notary.
  • logic: The first kind of natural language statements can be formalized in ordinary modal logic, but the second kind cannot.

Preposition: by

system: The refinement is based on conceptual models of the platforms involved as architectural styles, formalized by graph transformation systems.

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