Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

regularization

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.26 in modern English

Syllables: reg-u-lar-iza-tion
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

5

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The act of making regular, of regularizing.

American usage; Countable; Uncountable

noun

a process that simplifies results, often used to obtain results for ill-posed problems or to prevent overfitting.

American usage; Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"The history of the regularization of rivers, both in Russia and in Western Europe, hardly shows us anything but failures."
"A large regularization parameter may over-smoothen the solution, while a small regularization parameter may lose the ability to stabilize the solution."

Etymology

Etymology tree English regular Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English -ization English regularization From regular + -ization.

Usage

Inflected Forms

regularizations (plural) regularisation (alternative)

Derived Forms

overregularization

Phrases

Hadamard regularization Tikhonov regularization

Synonyms

regulation regularisation

Questions

What does regularization mean?: The act of making regular, of regularizing.
Where does regularization come from?: Etymology tree English regular Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English -ization English regularization From regular + -ization.

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