homogenize (v.)

"make similar," 1742, from homogeneous + -ize. The sense of "render milk uniform in consistency" is from 1901. Related: Homogenized; homogenizing; homogenizer.

also from 1742

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homogeneous (adj.)

1640s, from Medieval Latin homogeneus, from Greek homogenes "of the same kind," from homos "same" (see homo- (1)) + genos "kind, gender, race, stock" (from PIE root *gene- "give birth, beget," with derivatives referring to procreation and familial and tribal groups). Earlier in this sense was homogeneal (c. 1600). Related: Homogeneously; homogeneousness.

homogenise (v.)

chiefly British English spelling of homogenize; for suffix, see -ize. Related: Homogenised; homogenising; homogenisation.

homogenization

-ize

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1630s (earlier crudle, 1580s), "to thicken, cause to congeal, change or form into curd" (transitive), frequentative of curd (v.) "to make into curd" (late 14c., from the noun; see curd). Intransitive sense of "to coagulate, thicken" is from c. 1600. To curdle (one's) blood, in th

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equal

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early 15c., "to make similar or the same; to balance or harmonize; distribute (ingredients) uniformly; reduce to evenness or smoothness; to set (a fracture)," from Latin aequatus "level, levelled, even, side-by-side," past participle of aequare "make even or uniform, make equal,"

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