marginalize
/ˈmɑɹdʒɪnəlaɪz/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.38 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To relegate (something, especially a topic or a group of people) to the margins or to a lower limit; to exclude socially or otherwise.
Transitive verb
verb
To find a marginal distribution of a joint probability distribution.
Example Sentences
- "The practice of only analysing Indian English in terms of how it differs from a notional standard English that resides in the Englishes of the varieties of the Inner Circle is one of the key ways in which Indian English is marginalised."
- "Ideally, we would like to integrate out the parameters #92;theta, i.e. marginalize in order to obtain a prediction. Since this is again hard to realize analytically, one usually approximates the integral via sampling from the posterior."
Etymology
Etymology tree English marginal 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 English marginalize From marginal + -ize.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈmɑɹdʒɪnəlaɪz/
- British English: /ˈmɑːdʒɪnəlaɪz/