0 past simple and past participle of formalize
1 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.
Much of this work has not arisen from the more formalized attempts at reflexivity such as the video recording and the electronic site diaries.
When such an arrangement becomes formalized, the practice of unit-based ethics begins.
We have not attempted machine verification, but believe that the supporting concepts are formalized well enough that it would be feasible.
Conversational games are formalized as recursive transition networks.
All semantics are formalized as big-step operational semantics.
In this way, type theory can be formalized with a finite number of axioms.
For the theory to be formalized, this delicate balanced condition has to be more clearly spelled out.
Early workshops were focused mostly on identifying what contexts and ontologies are, and how they can be formalized and exploited.
