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Standardized   /stˈændərdˌaɪzd/   Listen
Standardized

adjective
1.
Brought into conformity with a standard.  Synonym: standardised.
2.
Capable of replacing or changing places with something else; permitting mutual substitution without loss of function or suitability.  Synonyms: exchangeable, interchangeable, similar, standardised.  "Interchangeable parts"



Standardize

verb
1.
Cause to conform to standard or norm.  Synonym: standardise.
2.
Evaluate by comparing with a standard.  Synonym: standardise.



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"Standardized" Quotes from Famous Books



... success in gaining them. The arts of reading and writing and figuring all would concede are basal in a world of newspapers and business. Then there is technical information and the training that prepares one to earn a livelihood in some more or less standardized guild or profession. Both these aims are reached fairly well by our present educational system, subject to various economies and improvements in detail. Then there are the studies which it is assumed contribute to general culture and to "training ...
— The Mind in the Making - The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform • James Harvey Robinson

... State be colored pink.[938] A little later in the case above mentioned involving cigarettes, the Court discovered some of the difficulties of the original package doctrine when applied to interstate commerce, in which the package is not so apt to be standardized as it is in ...
— The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation • Edward Corwin

... crucial test of a machine, which test usually in the operating sense restricts a prime mover in certain directions with regard to its auxiliary plant, etc., until the machine has been finally erected on its site. Obviously, unless a machine had become more or less standardized, a preliminary consumption test would be necessary, but once this primary qualification respecting consumption had been satisfactorily settled, there appears to be no reason why exhaustive tests in other directions should not all be carried out upon the site, where ...
— Steam Turbines - A Book of Instruction for the Adjustment and Operation of - the Principal Types of this Class of Prime Movers • Hubert E. Collins

... construct and operate street railways itself, but merely owned other corporations that did so. Its only assets, that is, were paper securities representing the ownership and control of other companies. This "holding company," which has since become almost a standardized form of corporation control in this country, was the invention of Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, one of America's greatest corporation lawyers. "Mr. Stetson," Ryan is said to have remarked, "do you know what you did when you drew up ...
— The Age of Big Business - Volume 39 in The Chronicles of America Series • Burton J. Hendrick

... be quite evident that consciences ought to be standardized, and that the standard should be made a high one. The true standard is the one set by the Rational Social Will. It is as much a duty to have a good conscience as it is to obey ...
— A Handbook of Ethical Theory • George Stuart Fullerton


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