Definition of "standardize" [stand•ard•ize]

• To cause to conform to a standard. (verb-transitive)
• To evaluate by comparing with a standard. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The Apple comparison is useful, because they successfully sold change to combat a Microsoft campaign in the late 1990s to "standardize" on their products by selling fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD)."
• "The whole idea of accelerating expansion and dark matter is based on data that we think we understand, but we may be trying to "standardize" something that may be wildly variable."
• "It has happened over and over again in the earth's history so why blame man now or even expect to be so intellegent to "standardize" our weather conditions."