marginalize

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Scrabble points
23
Words With Friends
27
Letters
11
Pronunciation
/ˈmɑːdʒɪnəlaɪz/
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/ˈmɑːdʒɪnəlaɪz/ · /ˈmɑɹdʒɪnəlaɪz/

Definition of marginalize

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (transitive)To relegate (something, especially a topic or a group of people) to the margins or to a lower limit; to exclude socially or otherwise.
    “The practice of only analysing Indian English in terms of how it differs from a notional standard English that resides in the Englishes of the varieties of the Inner Circle is one of the key ways in which Indian English is marginalised.”
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verb

  1. (transitive)To relegate (something, especially a topic or a group of people) to the margins or to a lower limit; to exclude socially or otherwise.
    “The practice of only analysing Indian English in terms of how it differs from a notional standard English that resides in the Englishes of the varieties of the Inner Circle is one of the key ways in which Indian English is marginalised.”
  2. To find a marginal distribution of a joint probability distribution.
    “Ideally, we would like to integrate out the parameters #92;theta, i.e. marginalize in order to obtain a prediction. Since this is again hard to realize analytically, one usually approximates the integral via sampling from the posterior.”

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Etymology

From marginal + -ize.

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