singularization

English

Etymology

singular +‎ -ization

Noun

singularization (countable and uncountable, plural singularizations)

1. The process or result of singularizing
   • 2019 January 20, “India on the size charts”, in Ahmedabad Mirror‎^[1]:

     When the world is moving towards globalisation and standardisation, India seems to be taking a step back. For something like clothing sizes for the Indian consumer market, singularisation makes way more sense than putting efforts into into introducing an entirely new size chart.

   • 2019, Anna Bączkowska, “A Corpus-Assised Critical Discourse Analysis of 'Migrants' and 'Migration' in the British Tabloids and Quality Press”, in Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, editor, Contacts and Contrasts in Cultures and Languages, Springer, →ISBN, page 168:

     Migrant in the singular is used as a noun or as a premodification of another noun, e.g., migrant worker (individualisation, singularisation), migrant labour (functionalisation) or migrant community (collectivisation, singularisation) and migrant families (collectivisation, pluralization), and such cases appear in all papers.

Related terms

• desingularization
• resingularization

Translations

Translations

• French: singularisation (fr) f
• Italian: singularisazione f