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anonymization

anonymization noun: the act or process of making anonymous, of hiding or disguising identity.

Noun

anonymization (countable and uncountable, plural anonymizations)

  1. The act or process of making anonymous, of hiding or disguising identity.
    • This anonymization site is supposed to keep emails from being tracked back to you.
    • This institutional and research caution is partly due to the fact that oral data is harder to anonymise than written data, and partly in recognition of the fact that in the future anonymisation will become increasingly harder as the application of AI to speech recognition continues to improve.2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 11

anonymization meaning in Malay

anonymization in Malay

act of making anonymous
penanpanamaan, anonimisasi, penganonimusan

Forms of anonymization

pluralanonymizations
alternative formanonymisation

Origin of anonymization

From anonymize + -ation.

Words formed from anonymization

Questions about anonymization

What does anonymization mean?
Anonymization means the act or process of making anonymous, of hiding or disguising identity.
What is anonymization in Malay?
Anonymization in Malay is penanpanamaan, anonimisasi, penganonimusan. See Anonymization meaning in Malay.
What part of speech is anonymization?
Anonymization is a noun.
What is the plural of anonymization?
The plural of anonymization is anonymizations.

Words near anonymization in the dictionary

  1. anonymises
  2. anonymising
  3. anonymities
  4. anonymity
  5. anonymizable
  6. anonymization
  7. anonymizations
  8. anonymize
  9. anonymized
  10. anonymizer
  11. anonymizers

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