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uniformise

uniformise is the alternative spelling of uniformize.

Meaning of uniformize

Verb

uniformize (third-person singular simple present uniformizes, present participle uniformizing, simple past and past participle uniformized)

  1. (transitive) To make uniform; to make the same throughout.
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  2. To carry out a process of uniformization, by which a multiple-valued function on a Riemann surface is converted to a single-valued function.
    • It is clear that these functions are also the only ones to be uniformized by the simple mapping of the Riemann surface, for of course any function that is single-valued in t must have been, before the mapping, a single-valued function on the Riemann surface.2000, Ludwig Bieberbach, Conformal Mapping, →ISBN, page 198

Forms of uniformise

third-person singular presentuniformises
present participleuniformising
past participleuniformised
pastuniformised

Origin of uniformise

From uniform + -ise.

Questions about uniformise

What is uniformise the alternative spelling of?
Uniformise is the alternative spelling of uniformize.

Words near uniformise in the dictionary

  1. uniformest
  2. uniforming
  3. uniformisable
  4. uniformisation
  5. uniformisations
  6. uniformise
  7. uniformised
  8. uniformiser
  9. uniformisers
  10. uniformises
  11. uniformising

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