[f. STANDARDIZE v. + -ATION.] The action of standardizing.
1896. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., I. 226. The process of ‘standardisation’ which has been already adopted in two instances in the British Pharmacopœia.
1900. M. Crackanthorpe, in 19th Cent., Jan., 104. The ‘standardisation’ of punishment is not the same as its ‘equalisation.’
1901. Cyclists’ Touring Club Gaz., July, 298/1. By all means, let us have standardisation of nuts and bolts.
1904. Times, 20 Dec., 15/3 (heading), Standardization of water pipes and fittings.
attrib. 1902. Times, 31 Dec., 13/1. I know … full advantage has not been taken of automatic or semi-automatic machine tools, the use of jigs, templates, and other standardization devices.
1908. Brit. Pharmacop. Rep., in Chem. & Druggist (1909), 20 Feb., 292/2. Standardisation experiments are in progress.
