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HOMOGENIZED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does homogenized mean?
• HOMOGENIZED (adjective)
The adjective HOMOGENIZED has 2 senses:
1. formed by blending unlike elements especially by reducing one element to particles and dispersing them throughout another substance
2. made homogeneous
Familiarity information: HOMOGENIZED used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Formed by blending unlike elements especially by reducing one element to particles and dispersing them throughout another substance
Synonyms:
homogenised; homogenized
Similar:
blended (combined or mixed together so that the constituent parts are indistinguishable)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Made homogeneous
Synonyms:
homogenised; homogenized
Similar:
homogeneous; homogenous (all of the same or similar kind or nature)
Context examples
An autoimmune demyelinating disease of the central nervous system that is produced experimentally in animals by the injection of homogenized brain or spinal cord in Freund's adjuvant.
(Experimental Allergic Encephalomyelitis, NCI Thesaurus)
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