0 to make something official or decide to arrange it according to a fixed structure:
These informal gatherings have become increasingly formalized in the last few years.
They offered me the job, but the contract has not been formalized yet.
1 to make something official:
2 to arrange something according to a fixed structure:
formalize a process/procedure/structure, etc. It is now widely acknowledged that with increasing size comes the need to formalize operations if a firm wishes to remain effective.
Despite the apparent contradiction, casual working in this sector is a highly formalized system of working.
3 to make something official:
formalize an agreement/arrangement/offer
When such an arrangement becomes formalized, the practice of unit-based ethics begins.
Let us first formalize the expansion of free variables.
In this section we formalize type and instantiation definitions in terms of (extended) regular tree grammars.
We have not attempted machine verification, but believe that the supporting concepts are formalized well enough that it would be feasible.
A population hazard model formalizes this conceptualization by ascribing vertical displacement in the population hazard profile to variation in the predictors.
These results formalize and clarify a set of contending intuitions about function that researchers have had.
Most non-monotonic logics aim to formalize this phenomenon of 'default reasoning', but they do so in different ways.
To formalize this transformation process, the two loop modifications needed are presented in figure 17.
