regularize
regularize Lexical Profile
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• verb
To make something regular, uniform, or consistent in arrangement, pattern, or occurrence.
"The logistics department implemented new software to regularize the delivery schedules across all regional warehouses."
To make a temporary, informal, or unauthorized status or arrangement official, lawful, or compliant with established rules.
"The government passed an amnesty bill to regularize the residency status of thousands of long-term migrant workers."
To modify an ill-posed mathematical problem, statistical model, or divergent integral by introducing additional constraints or penalty terms to prevent overfitting or ensure a well-defined solution.
"Data scientists often regularize complex neural networks using weight decay so the model generalizes better to unseen data."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Coined in the mid-17th century from the adjective 'regular' and the verbal suffix '-ize', ultimately deriving from Latin 'regularis' (containing rules), from 'regula' (rule or straightedge).