Word info

rationalised

Speech parts

1. rationalised - Adjective

2. rationalised - Verb

Meaning

rationalised

simple past and past participle of rationalise

Given a rational explanation

Reorganised, made more efficient.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Monboddo and Samuel Clarke resisted elements of Newton's work, but eventually rationalised it to conform with their strong religious views of nature. Source: Internet

He rationalised the use of many ophthalmically important drugs, including mydriatics and miotics. Source: Internet

Robinson, p. 102. Chaplin thought the Keystone comedies "a crude mélange of rough and rumble", but liked the idea of working in films and rationalised: "Besides, it would mean a new life." Source: Internet

The introduction of SI rationalised both the way in which units of measure were defined and also the list of units in use. Source: Internet

Within Modernism, urban planning represented a 20th-century move towards establishing something stable, structured, and rationalised within what had become a world of chaos, flux and change (Irving 1993, 475). Source: Internet

It has rationalised the mass dispossession of the Palestinians of their homeland through ethnic cleansing and illegal settlement-building. Source: Internet

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