rationalize
Verb
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Verb
rationalize (rationalizes, present participle rationalizing; past and past participle rationalized)
- To make something rational or more rational.
- To justify an immoral act, or illogical behaviour. “The process of thought by which one justifies a discreditable act, and by which one offers to oneself and the world a better motive for one's action than the true motive”
- (mathematics) To remove radicals, without changing the value of an expression or the roots of an equation.
- To structure something along modern, efficient and systematic lines, or according to scientific principles. This often includes eliminating duplication and grouping like or similar items.
- French: rationaliser
- German: rationalisieren
- Russian: рационализи́ровать
- Spanish: racionalizar
- French: rationaliser
- Spanish: racionalizar
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