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nonstandardization

nonstandardization noun: a lack of standardization.

Noun

nonstandardization (countable and uncountable, plural nonstandardizations)

  1. A lack of standardization.
    • This nonstandardization can be quite dangerous, however, and completely undermines shared SA in these systems.2003, Mica R. Endsley, Betty Bolte, Debra G. Jones, Designing for Situation Awareness: An Approach to User-Centered Design, →ISBN
    • The lack of lens interchangeability among camera manufacturers is probably the hardest felt of all the nonstandardizations.2004, Anton Wilson, Anton Wilson's Cinema Workshop, →ISBN, page 103

Examples of nonstandardization in a sentence

  • The waste of nonstandardization occurs when resources are needed to compensate and correct for processes that are completed in an arbitrary and unpredictable way because standards are ignored.2010, William K. Balzer, Lean Higher Education, →ISBN:
  • Thus, in economies where shortage, nonstandardization, and weak information channels are pronounced, we would expect to find a prevalence of relational contracting.2016, Dorothy J. Solinger, China's Transition from Socialism?, →ISBN:

Forms of nonstandardization

pluralnonstandardizations

Origin of nonstandardization

From non- + standardization.

Questions about nonstandardization

What does nonstandardization mean?
Nonstandardization means a lack of standardization.
How do you use nonstandardization in a sentence?
The waste of nonstandardization occurs when resources are needed to compensate and correct for processes that are completed in an arbitrary and unpredictable way because standards are ignored.
What part of speech is nonstandardization?
Nonstandardization is a noun.
What is the plural of nonstandardization?
The plural of nonstandardization is nonstandardizations.

Words near nonstandardization in the dictionary

  1. nonstandard unit
  2. nonstandard units
  3. nonstandard varieties
  4. nonstandard variety
  5. nonstandardised
  6. nonstandardization
  7. nonstandardizations
  8. nonstandardized
  9. nonstandardly
  10. nonstandardness
  11. nonstandards

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