Regularised

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To modify something in order to adhere to established guidelines or standards To impose rules and regulations ensuring uniformity in various practices To create a consistent framework for processes or systems to follow
2. Changed or adjusted to conform to a standard pattern or rule
3. Altered to ensure consistency and compliance with a set norm

Etymology: This is an inflected form, so I'll start with what it is: "regularised" is the past tense and past participle of "regularise", meaning to make something more uniform or orderly. The verb is formed from the adjective "regular" plus the suffix "-ise", which comes ultimately from Greek "-izein" through Late Latin "-izare" and Middle French "-iser". The base adjective "regular" traces back to Latin "regulāris", which is built from "rēgula", meaning a rule, a ruler or a straight stick used for measuring, and that itself derives from "regere", to rule or direct. English took "regular" from Anglo-Norman and Middle French forms of that Latin word in the Middle English period. Its root idea is therefore a thing that keeps to a line, a sense that the verb inherits when it describes bringing something into line.

Synonyms: standardized, normalized, systematized, ordered, structured

Antonyms: irregular, chaotic, disordered, random, unstructured