0 to make something official or decide to arrange it according to a fixed structure: --
They offered me the job, but the contract has not been formalized yet.
These informal gatherings have become increasingly formalized in the last few years.
1 to make something official: --
2 to arrange something according to a fixed structure: --
Despite the apparent contradiction, casual working in this sector is a highly formalized system of working.
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.
3 to make something official: --
formalize an agreement/arrangement/offer
Recently, the use of type systems to formalize protocols has interested many researchers.
Early workshops were focused mostly on identifying what contexts and ontologies are, and how they can be formalized and exploited.
For the theory to be formalized, this delicate balanced condition has to be more clearly spelled out.
In this way, type theory can be formalized with a finite number of axioms.
Again, we call on a necessity for regularities in design space to both formalize and make efficient notions of similaritybased recall.
All semantics are formalized as big-step operational semantics.
Conversational games are formalized as recursive transition networks.
To formalize this transformation process, the two loop modifications needed are presented in figure 17.
