| lyophilization | (noun) a method of drying food or blood plasma or pharmaceuticals or tissue without destroying their physical structure; material is frozen and then warmed in a vacuum so that the ice sublimes | Synonyms: freeze-drying, lyophilisation |
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| lysogenization | (noun) the process by which a bacterium acquires a phage that becomes integrated into its genome | Synonyms: lysogenisation |
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| magnetization | (noun) the physical property of being magnetic | Synonyms: magnetisation |
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| (noun) the process that makes a substance magnetic (temporarily or permanently) | Synonyms: magnetic induction, magnetisation |
| (noun) the extent or degree to which something is magnetized | Synonyms: magnetisation |
| maize | (noun) a strong yellow color | Synonyms: gamboge, lemon, lemon yellow |
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| (noun) tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times | Synonyms: corn, Indian corn, Zea mays |
| marbleization | (noun) a texture like that of marble | Synonyms: marbleisation, marbleising, marbleizing |
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| marbleizing | (noun) a texture like that of marble | Synonyms: marbleisation, marbleising, marbleization |
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| marginalization | (noun) the social process of becoming or being made marginal (especially as a group within the larger society) | Synonyms: marginalisation |
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| masculinization | (noun) the abnormal development of male sexual characteristics in a female (usually as the result of hormone therapies or adrenal malfunction) | Synonyms: masculinisation, virilisation, virilization |
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| materialization | (noun) an appearance in bodily form (as of a disembodied spirit) | Synonyms: manifestation, materialisation |
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| (noun) something that comes into existence as a result | Synonyms: materialisation, offspring |
| (noun) the process of coming into being; becoming reality | Synonyms: materialisation |
| maximization | (noun) the act of raising to the highest possible point or condition or position | Synonyms: maximation, maximisation |
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| (noun) the mathematical process of finding the maximum value of a function | - |
| mechanization | (noun) the act of implementing the control of equipment with advanced technology; usually involving electronic hardware | Synonyms: automation, mechanisation |
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| (noun) the condition of having a highly technical implementation | Synonyms: mechanisation |
| meclizine | (noun) an antihistamine (trade name Antivert) used to treat or prevent motion sickness | Synonyms: Antivert, meclizine hydrochloride |
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| memorialization | (noun) a ceremony to honor the memory of someone or something | Synonyms: commemoration, memorialisation |
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| memorization | (noun) learning so as to be able to remember verbatim | Synonyms: committal to memory, memorisation |
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| memorizer | (noun) a person who learns by rote | Synonyms: memoriser |
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| mesmerizer | (noun) a person who induces hypnosis | Synonyms: hypnotiser, hypnotist, hypnotizer, mesmerist |
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| mestiza | (noun) a woman of mixed racial ancestry (especially mixed European and Native American ancestry) | - |
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| mestizo | (noun) a person of mixed racial ancestry (especially mixed European and Native American ancestry) | - |
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| militarization | (noun) act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency: | Synonyms: militarisation, mobilisation, mobilization |
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| miniaturization | (noun) act of making on a greatly reduced scale | Synonyms: miniaturisation |
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| minimization | (noun) the act of reducing something to the least possible amount or degree or position | Synonyms: minimisation |
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| mizen | (noun) third mast from the bow in a vessel having three or more masts; the after and shorter mast of a yawl, ketch, or dandy | Synonyms: mizenmast, mizzen, mizzenmast |
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| (noun) fore-and-aft sail set on the mizzenmast | Synonyms: mizzen |
| mizenmast | (noun) third mast from the bow in a vessel having three or more masts; the after and shorter mast of a yawl, ketch, or dandy | Synonyms: mizen, mizzen, mizzenmast |
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| mizzen | (noun) third mast from the bow in a vessel having three or more masts; the after and shorter mast of a yawl, ketch, or dandy | Synonyms: mizen, mizenmast, mizzenmast |
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| (noun) fore-and-aft sail set on the mizzenmast | Synonyms: mizen |
| mizzenmast | (noun) third mast from the bow in a vessel having three or more masts; the after and shorter mast of a yawl, ketch, or dandy | Synonyms: mizen, mizenmast, mizzen |
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| mizzle | (noun) very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower | Synonyms: drizzle |
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| mobilization | (noun) act of marshaling and organizing and making ready for use or action | Synonyms: mobilisation |
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| (noun) act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency: | Synonyms: militarisation, militarization, mobilisation |
| modernization | (noun) making modern in appearance or behavior | Synonyms: modernisation |
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| (noun) a modernized version (as of a play) | - |
| monetization | (noun) establishing something (e.g. gold or silver) as the legal tender of a country | Synonyms: monetisation |
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| monopolization | (noun) domination (of a market or commodity) to the exclusion of others | Synonyms: monopolisation |
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| monopolizer | (noun) someone who monopolizes the means of producing or selling something | Synonyms: monopoliser, monopolist |
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| moralization | (noun) the act of making moral (or more moral) | Synonyms: moralisation |
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| (noun) indulgence in moral pronouncements; the exposition (often superficially) of a particular moral code | Synonyms: moralisation, moralizing |
| moralizing | (noun) indulgence in moral pronouncements; the exposition (often superficially) of a particular moral code | Synonyms: moralisation, moralization |
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| motorization | (noun) the act of motorizing (equipping with motors or with motor vehicles) | Synonyms: motorisation |
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| myelinization | (noun) the development of a myelin sheath around a nerve fiber | Synonyms: myelinisation |
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| mythologization | (noun) the restatement of a message as a myth | Synonyms: mythologisation |
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| nasalization | (noun) the act of nasalizing; the utterance of sounds modulated by the nasal resonators | Synonyms: nasalisation |
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| nationalization | (noun) changing something from private to state ownership or control | Synonyms: communisation, communization, nationalisation |
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| (noun) the action of rendering national in character | Synonyms: nationalisation |
| (noun) the action of forming or becoming a nation | Synonyms: nationalisation |
| naturalization | (noun) the proceeding whereby a foreigner is granted citizenship | Synonyms: naturalisation |
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| (noun) changing the pronunciation of a borrowed word to agree with the borrowers' phonology | Synonyms: naturalisation |
| (noun) the introduction of animals or plants to places where they flourish but are not indigenous | Synonyms: naturalisation |
| (noun) the quality of being brought into conformity with nature | Synonyms: naturalisation |
| nebulizer | (noun) a dispenser that turns a liquid (such as perfume) into a fine mist | Synonyms: atomiser, atomizer, nebuliser, spray, sprayer |
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| neutralization | (noun) action intended to nullify the effects of some previous action | Synonyms: counteraction, neutralisation |
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| (noun) action intended to keep a country politically neutral or exclude it from a possible war | Synonyms: neutralisation |
| (noun) (euphemism) the removal of a threat by killing or destroying it (especially in a covert operation or military operation) | Synonyms: neutralisation |
| (noun) a chemical reaction in which an acid and a base interact with the formation of a salt; with strong acids and bases the essential reaction is the combination of hydrogen ions with hydroxyl ions to form water | Synonyms: neutralisation, neutralisation reaction, neutralization reaction |
| noncitizen | (noun) a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country | Synonyms: alien, foreigner, outlander |
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| nonpartizan | (noun) a person who is nonpartisan | Synonyms: nonpartisan |
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| normalization | (noun) the imposition of standards or regulations | Synonyms: normalisation, standardisation, standardization |
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| normalizer | (noun) a person who normalizes | Synonyms: normaliser |
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| novelization | (noun) converting something into the form of a novel | Synonyms: novelisation |
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| objectivization | (noun) the act or process of making or becoming objective. | - |
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| opsonization | (noun) process whereby opsonins make an invading microorganism more susceptible to phagocytosis | Synonyms: opsonisation |
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| optimization | (noun) the act of rendering optimal | Synonyms: optimisation |
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| organization | (noun) the act of organizing a business or an activity related to a business | Synonyms: organisation |
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| (noun) the activity or result of distributing or disposing persons or things properly or methodically | Synonyms: organisation |
| (noun) the act of forming or establishing something | Synonyms: constitution, establishment, formation, organisation |
| (noun) an ordered manner; orderliness by virtue of being methodical and well organized | Synonyms: organisation, system |
| (noun) an organized structure for arranging or classifying | Synonyms: arrangement, organisation, system |
| (noun) a group of people who work together | Synonyms: organisation |
| (noun) the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something | Synonyms: administration, brass, establishment, governance, governing body, organisation |
| organizer | (noun) a lightweight consumer electronic device that looks like a hand-held computer but instead performs specific tasks; can serve as a diary or a personal database or a telephone or an alarm clock etc. | Synonyms: organiser, PDA, personal digital assistant, personal organiser, personal organizer |
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| (noun) a person who brings order and organization to an enterprise | Synonyms: arranger, organiser |
| (noun) someone who enlists workers to join a union | Synonyms: labor organizer, organiser |
| outsize | (noun) an unusual garment size (especially one that is very large) | - |
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| overcapitalization | (noun) (business) too much capitalization (the sale of more stock than the business warrants) | Synonyms: overcapitalisation |
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| overutilization | (noun) exploitation to the point of diminishing returns | Synonyms: overexploitation, overuse, overutilisation |
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| oxidization | (noun) the process of oxidizing; the addition of oxygen to a compound with a loss of electrons; always occurs accompanied by reduction | Synonyms: oxidation, oxidisation |
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| oxidizer | (noun) a substance that oxidizes another substance | Synonyms: oxidant, oxidiser, oxidizing agent |
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| particularization | (noun) an individualized description of a particular instance | Synonyms: detailing, particularisation |
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| partizan | (noun) a pike with a long tapering double-edged blade with lateral projections; 16th and 17th centuries | Synonyms: partisan |
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| (noun) an ardent and enthusiastic supporter of some person or activity | Synonyms: enthusiast, partisan |
| pasteurization | (noun) partial sterilization of foods at a temperature that destroys harmful microorganisms without major changes in the chemistry of the food | Synonyms: pasteurisation |
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| pasteurizer | (noun) an apparatus for pasteurizing substances (especially milk). | Synonyms: pasteuriser |
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| pauperization | (noun) the act of making someone poor | Synonyms: impoverishment, pauperisation |
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| (noun) a state of extreme poverty or destitution | Synonyms: indigence, need, pauperism, penury |
| penalization | (noun) the act of punishing, or the infliction of a penalty | Synonyms: penalisation, penalty, punishment |
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| peptization | (noun) the process of converting to a sol; bringing to a colloidal solution | Synonyms: peptisation |
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| philosophizer | (noun) someone who considers situations from a philosophical point of view | Synonyms: philosophiser |
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| philosophizing | (noun) the exposition (often superficially) of a particular philosophy | - |
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| phiz | (noun) the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British) | Synonyms: countenance, kisser, mug, physiognomy, smiler, visage |
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| phlegmatizer | (noun) a material added to an explosive to make it less susceptible to detonation and thus more stable and safer to handle and transport. | - |
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| pizza | (noun) Italian open pie made of thin bread dough spread with a spiced mixture of e.g. tomato sauce and cheese | Synonyms: pizza pie |
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| pizzaz | (noun) the activeness of an energetic personality | Synonyms: dynamism, oomph, pizzazz, zing |
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| pizzazz | (noun) the activeness of an energetic personality | Synonyms: dynamism, oomph, pizzaz, zing |
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| pizzeria | (noun) a shop where pizzas are made and sold | Synonyms: pizza parlor, pizza shop |
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| pizzicato | (noun) a note or passage that is played pizzicato | - |
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| plagiarization | (noun) the act of plagiarizing; taking someone's words or ideas as if they were your own | Synonyms: piracy, plagiarisation, plagiarism |
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| plagiarizer | (noun) someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own | Synonyms: literary pirate, pirate, plagiariser, plagiarist |
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| plasticizer | (noun) a substance added to plastics or other materials to make them more pliable | Synonyms: plasticiser |
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| pluralization | (noun) the act of pluralizing or attributing plurality to | Synonyms: pluralisation |
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| poetizer | (noun) a writer who composes rhymes; a maker of poor verses (usually used as terms of contempt for minor or inferior poets) | Synonyms: poetiser, rhymer, rhymester, versifier |
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| polarization | (noun) the phenomenon in which waves of light or other radiation are restricted in direction of vibration | Synonyms: polarisation |
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| (noun) the condition of having or giving polarity | Synonyms: polarisation |
| polymerization | (noun) a chemical process that combines several monomers to form a polymer or polymeric compound | Synonyms: polymerisation |
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| popularization | (noun) the act of making something attractive to the general public | Synonyms: popularisation, vulgarisation, vulgarization |
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| (noun) an interpretation that easily understandable and acceptable | Synonyms: popularisation |
| popularizer | (noun) someone who makes something attractive to the general public | Synonyms: populariser, vulgariser, vulgarizer |
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| privatization | (noun) changing something from state to private ownership or control | Synonyms: denationalisation, denationalization, privatisation |
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| prize | (noun) something given as a token of victory | Synonyms: trophy |
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| (noun) something given for victory or superiority in a contest or competition or for winning a lottery | Synonyms: award |
| (noun) goods or money obtained illegally | Synonyms: booty, dirty money, loot, pillage, plunder, swag |
| prizefight | (noun) a boxing match between professional boxers for a cash prize | Synonyms: prize fight |
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| prizefighter | (noun) a professional boxer | Synonyms: gladiator |
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| professionalization | (noun) the social process whereby people come to engage in an activity for pay or as a means of livelihood | Synonyms: professionalisation |
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| publicizer | (noun) someone who publicizes | Synonyms: publiciser, publicist |
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| publicizing | (noun) the business of drawing public attention to goods and services | Synonyms: advertising, merchandising |
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| pulverization | (noun) the act of grinding to a powder or dust | Synonyms: grind, mill, pulverisation |
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| (noun) annihilation by pulverizing something | Synonyms: pulverisation |
| (noun) a solid substance in the form of tiny loose particles; a solid that has been pulverized | Synonyms: powder, pulverisation |
| quantization | (noun) the act of dividing into quanta or expressing in terms of quantum theory | Synonyms: quantisation |
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| quiz | (noun) an examination consisting of a few short questions | - |
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| quizmaster | (noun) the host or chairman of a radio or tv quiz show or panel game | Synonyms: question master |
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| quizzer | (noun) someone who administers a test to determine your qualifications | Synonyms: examiner, tester |
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| randomization | (noun) a deliberately haphazard arrangement of observations so as to simulate chance | Synonyms: randomisation |
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| rationalization | (noun) systematic organization; the act of organizing something according to a system or a rationale | Synonyms: rationalisation, systematisation, systematization |
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| (noun) (mathematics) the simplification of an expression or equation by eliminating radicals without changing the value of the expression or the roots of the equation | Synonyms: rationalisation |
| (noun) the organization of a business according to scientific principles of management in order to increase efficiency | Synonyms: rationalisation |
| (noun) the cognitive process of making something seem consistent with or based on reason | Synonyms: rationalisation |
| (noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your true motivation is concealed by explaining your actions and feelings in a way that is not threatening | Synonyms: rationalisation |
| realization | (noun) making real or giving the appearance of reality | Synonyms: actualisation, actualization, realisation |
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| (noun) a sale in order to obtain money (as a sale of stock or a sale of the estate of a bankrupt person) or the money so obtained | Synonyms: realisation |
| (noun) something that is made real or concrete | Synonyms: fruition, realisation |
| (noun) the completion or enrichment of a piece of music left sparsely notated by a composer | Synonyms: realisation |
| (noun) coming to understand something clearly and distinctly | Synonyms: realisation, recognition |
| (noun) a musical composition that has been completed or enriched by someone other than the composer | Synonyms: realisation |
| recognizance | (noun) (law) a security entered into before a court with a condition to perform some act required by law; on failure to perform that act a sum is forfeited | Synonyms: recognisance |
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| regularization | (noun) the act of bringing to uniformity; making regular | Synonyms: regularisation, regulation |
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| (noun) the condition of having been made regular (or more regular) | Synonyms: regularisation |
| reharmonization | (noun) a piece of music whose original harmony has been revised | Synonyms: reharmonisation |
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| relativization | (noun) the act or result of making relative or regarding as relative rather than absolute. | Synonyms: relativisation |
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