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🖥️ To standardize 📚 To make official
to canonicalize

to canonicalize

7.8
To change data into a single standard form
  • verb
  • /kəˈnænɪkəˌlaɪz/
  • Specialized
translation icon : canonizar
  • To improve our search engine ranking, we need to canonicalize duplicate pages on our site.

Examples

  • It might also be possible to translate certain classes of Perl 5 code to other languages with substantially more ease, or to identify error patterns, or to perform better syntax highlighting, or to canonicalize the formatting and idioms of code in one fell swoop.

    Blog text (4)

  • Number three here, if you are actually using some sort of tracking ID or dynamic URL or just changing URLs with similar content, make sure that you can canonicalize it back to one source.

    Blog text (9)

  • I recently "canonicalized" all content on our website.

    Blog text (31)

  • I have now corrected this error, but Google Search still leads users to the wrongly canonicalized version of the page.

    Blog text (31)

  • The software can canonicalize input data, ensuring it follows the established format.

  • To ensure consistency, developers must canonicalize URLs before submitting them.

Synonyms

to standardize
vsto canonicalize
  • US
83 4.2

To make things the same by using one set of rules

converts items into a recognized format used in computing and data processing
to uniformize
vsto canonicalize
7.7

To make different things the same in form or rules

changes items to a recognized technical format rather than only making them identical

Antonyms

to deviate
51 5.8

To change direction or move away from a planned route

How Standard

to standardize
  • US
83 4.2
to canonicalize
  • Specialized
7.8
to normalize
  • US
35 4.1
to adjust
317 2.7

Surface Forms

canonicalize infinitive
canonicalized past
canonicalized past participle
canonicalizing present participle
canonicalizes third person singular

Morphology

canonicalize = canonical (transparent) = canonical + ize

The verb is formed by adding the productive verb-forming suffix '-ize' to the adjective 'canonical', yielding 'make or render canonical'.

Etymology

Canonicalize comes from the root canon meaning 'rule' or 'standard' and the ending -ize meaning 'make'. So to canonicalize data or URLs is to 'make them follow the rule' by changing different forms into one standard form.