Words that rhyme with minimization

• improvisation 0
  n 1: a creation spoken or written or composed extemporaneously (without prior preparation) 2: an unplanned expedient [syn: improvisation, temporary expedient] 3: a performance given extempore without planning or preparation [syn: extemporization, extemporisation, improvisation]
• mediation 0
  n 1: a negotiation to resolve differences that is conducted by some impartial party 2: the act of intervening for the purpose of bringing about a settlement [syn: mediation, intermediation]
• medication 0
  n 1: (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease [syn: medicine, medication, medicament, medicinal drug] 2: the act of treating with medicines or remedies
• meditation 0
  n 1: continuous and profound contemplation or musing on a subject or series of subjects of a deep or abstruse nature; "the habit of meditation is the basis for all real knowledge" [syn: meditation, speculation] 2: (religion) contemplation of spiritual matters (usually on religious or philosophical subjects)
• menstruation 0
  n 1: the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause; "the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation"; "a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped" --Hippocrates; "the semen begins to appear in males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the catamenia begin to flow in females"--Aristotle [syn: menstruation, menses, menstruum, catamenia, period, flow]
• mutilation 0
  n 1: an injury that causes disfigurement or that deprives you of a limb or other important body part
• narration 0
  n 1: a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program; "his narrative was interesting"; "Disney's stories entertain adults as well as children" [syn: narrative, narration, story, tale] 2: the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events; "his narration was hesitant" [syn: narration, recital, yarn] 3: (rhetoric) the second section of an oration in which the facts are set forth
• nation 0
  n 1: a politically organized body of people under a single government; "the state has elected a new president"; "African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized land" [syn: state, nation, country, land, commonwealth, res publica, body politic] 2: the people who live in a nation or country; "a statement that sums up the nation's mood"; "the news was announced to the nation"; "the whole country worshipped him" [syn: nation, land, country] 3: United States prohibitionist who raided saloons and destroyed bottles of liquor with a hatchet (1846-1911) [syn: Nation, Carry Nation, Carry Amelia Moore Nation] 4: a federation of tribes (especially Native American tribes); "the Shawnee nation"
• navigation 0
  n 1: the guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place [syn: navigation, pilotage, piloting] 2: ship traffic; "the channel will be open to navigation as soon as the ice melts" 3: the work of a sailor [syn: seafaring, navigation, sailing]
• negation 0
  n 1: a negative statement; a statement that is a refusal or denial of some other statement 2: the speech act of negating 3: (logic) a proposition that is true if and only if another proposition is false
• negotiation 0
  n 1: a discussion intended to produce an agreement; "the buyout negotiation lasted several days"; "they disagreed but kept an open dialogue"; "talks between Israelis and Palestinians" [syn: negotiation, dialogue, talks] 2: the activity or business of negotiating an agreement; coming to terms
• nomination 0
  n 1: the act of officially naming a candidate; "the Republican nomination for Governor" 2: the condition of having been proposed as a suitable candidate for appointment or election; "there was keen competition for the nomination"; "his nomination was hotly protested" 3: an address (usually at a political convention) proposing the name of a candidate to run for election; "the nomination was brief and to the point" [syn: nominating speech, nominating address, nomination]
• notation 0
  n 1: a technical system of symbols used to represent special things [syn: notation, notational system] 2: a comment or instruction (usually added); "his notes were appended at the end of the article"; "he added a short notation to the address on the envelope" [syn: note, annotation, notation] 3: the activity of representing something by a special system of marks or characters
• notification 0
  n 1: an accusation of crime made by a grand jury on its own initiative [syn: presentment, notification] 2: informing by words [syn: telling, apprisal, notification] 3: a request for payment; "the notification stated the grace period and the penalties for defaulting" [syn: notification, notice]
• obfuscation 0
  n 1: confusion resulting from failure to understand [syn: bewilderment, obfuscation, puzzlement, befuddlement, mystification, bafflement, bemusement] 2: the activity of obscuring people's understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered [syn: mystification, obfuscation] 3: darkening or obscuring the sight of something
• obligation 0
  n 1: the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force; "we must instill a sense of duty in our children"; "every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty"- John D.Rockefeller Jr [syn: duty, responsibility, obligation] 2: the state of being obligated to do or pay something; "he is under an obligation to finish the job" 3: a personal relation in which one is indebted for a service or favor [syn: obligation, indebtedness] 4: a written promise to repay a debt [syn: debt instrument, obligation, certificate of indebtedness] 5: a legal agreement specifying a payment or action and the penalty for failure to comply
• observation 0
  n 1: the act of making and recording a measurement 2: the act of observing; taking a patient look [syn: observation, observance, watching] 3: a remark expressing careful consideration [syn: observation, reflection, reflexion] 4: facts learned by observing; "he reported his observations to the mayor" 5: the act of noticing or paying attention; "he escaped the notice of the police" [syn: notice, observation, observance]
• occupation 0
  n 1: the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money; "he's not in my line of business" [syn: occupation, business, job, line of work, line] 2: the control of a country by military forces of a foreign power [syn: occupation, military control] 3: any activity that occupies a person's attention; "he missed the bell in his occupation with the computer game" 4: the act of occupying or taking possession of a building; "occupation of a building without a certificate of occupancy is illegal" [syn: occupation, occupancy, moving in] 5: the period of time during which a place or position or nation is occupied; "during the German occupation of Paris"
• operation 0
  n 1: the state of being in effect or being operative; "that rule is no longer in operation" 2: a business especially one run on a large scale; "a large- scale farming operation"; "a multinational operation"; "they paid taxes on every stage of the operation"; "they had to consolidate their operations" 3: a planned activity involving many people performing various actions; "they organized a rescue operation"; "the biggest police operation in French history"; "running a restaurant is quite an operation"; "consolidate the companies various operations" 4: (computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction); "it can perform millions of operations per second" 5: activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign); "it was a joint operation of the navy and air force" [syn: operation, military operation] 6: a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body; "they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available"; "he died while undergoing surgery" [syn: operation, surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process] 7: a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work; "the operations in building a house"; "certain machine tool operations" [syn: operation, procedure] 8: process or manner of functioning or operating; "the power of its engine determines its operation"; "the plane's operation in high winds"; "they compared the cooking performance of each oven"; "the jet's performance conformed to high standards" [syn: operation, functioning, performance] 9: (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents; "the process of thinking"; "the cognitive operation of remembering" [syn: process, cognitive process, mental process, operation, cognitive operation] 10: (mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods; "the problems at the end of the chapter demonstrated the mathematical processes involved in the derivation"; "they were learning the basic operations of arithmetic" [syn: mathematical process, mathematical operation, operation] 11: the activity of operating something (a machine or business etc.); "her smooth operation of the vehicle gave us a surprisingly comfortable ride"
• organization 0
  n 1: a group of people who work together [syn: organization, organisation] 2: an organized structure for arranging or classifying; "he changed the arrangement of the topics"; "the facts were familiar but it was in the organization of them that he was original"; "he tried to understand their system of classification" [syn: arrangement, organization, organisation, system] 3: the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something; "he claims that the present administration is corrupt"; "the governance of an association is responsible to its members"; "he quickly became recognized as a member of the establishment" [syn: administration, governance, governing body, establishment, brass, organization, organisation] 4: the act of organizing a business or an activity related to a business; "he was brought in to supervise the organization of a new department" [syn: organization, organisation] 5: an ordered manner; orderliness by virtue of being methodical and well organized; "his compulsive organization was not an endearing quality"; "we can't do it unless we establish some system around here" [syn: organization, organisation, system] 6: the activity or result of distributing or disposing persons or things properly or methodically; "his organization of the work force was very efficient" [syn: organization, organisation] 7: the act of forming or establishing something; "the constitution of a PTA group last year"; "it was the establishment of his reputation"; "he still remembers the organization of the club" [syn: constitution, establishment, formation, organization, organisation]
• realization 0
  n 1: coming to understand something clearly and distinctly; "a growing realization of the risk involved"; "a sudden recognition of the problem he faced"; "increasing recognition that diabetes frequently coexists with other chronic diseases" [syn: realization, realisation, recognition] 2: making real or giving the appearance of reality [syn: realization, realisation, actualization, actualisation] 3: a musical composition that has been completed or enriched by someone other than the composer [syn: realization, realisation] 4: a sale in order to obtain money (as a sale of stock or a sale of the estate of a bankrupt person) or the money so obtained [syn: realization, realisation] 5: the completion or enrichment of a piece of music left sparsely notated by a composer [syn: realization, realisation] 6: something that is made real or concrete; "the victory was the realization of a whole year's work" [syn: realization, realisation, fruition]
• reorganization 0
  n 1: the imposition of a new organization; organizing differently (often involving extensive and drastic changes); "a committee was appointed to oversee the reorganization of the curriculum"; "top officials were forced out in the cabinet shakeup" [syn: reorganization, reorganisation, shake-up, shakeup] 2: an extensive alteration of the structure of a corporation or government; "after the takeover there was a thorough reorganization"; "the reorganization was prescribed by federal bankruptcy laws"
• amortization 0
  n 1: the reduction of the value of an asset by prorating its cost over a period of years [syn: amortization, amortisation] 2: payment of an obligation in a series of installments or transfers [syn: amortization, amortisation]
• canonization 0
  n 1: (Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church) the act of admitting a deceased person into the canon of saints [syn: canonization, canonisation]
• colonization 0
  n 1: the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies; "the British colonization of America" [syn: colonization, colonisation, settlement]
• demonization 0
  n 1: to represent as diabolically evil; "the demonization of our enemies" [syn: demonization, demonisation]
• immunization 0
  n 1: the act of making immune (especially by inoculation) [syn: immunization, immunisation]
• ionization 0
  n 1: the condition of being dissociated into ions (as by heat or radiation or chemical reaction or electrical discharge); "the ionization of a gas" [syn: ionization, ionisation] 2: the process of ionizing; the formation of ions by separating atoms or molecules or radicals or by adding or subtracting electrons from atoms by strong electric fields in a gas [syn: ionization, ionisation]
• maximization 0
  n 1: the mathematical process of finding the maximum value of a function 2: the act of raising to the highest possible point or condition or position [syn: maximization, maximisation, maximation] [ant: minimisation, minimization]
• optimization 0
  n 1: the act of rendering optimal; "the simultaneous optimization of growth and profitability"; "in an optimization problem we seek values of the variables that lead to an optimal value of the function that is to be optimized"; "to promote the optimization and diversification of agricultural products" [syn: optimization, optimisation]
• unionization 0
  n 1: act of forming labor unions; "the issue underlying the strike was unionization" [syn: unionization, unionisation]
• urbanization 0
  n 1: the condition of being urbanized [syn: urbanization, urbanisation] 2: the social process whereby cities grow and societies become more urban [syn: urbanization, urbanisation]
• vaporization 0
  n 1: annihilation by vaporizing something [syn: vaporization, vaporisation] 2: the process of becoming a vapor [syn: vaporization, vaporisation, vapor, vapour, evaporation]
• dramatization 0
  n 1: conversion into dramatic form; "the play was a dramatization of a short story" [syn: dramatization, dramatisation] 2: a dramatic representation [syn: dramatization, dramatisation]
• privatization 0
  n 1: changing something from state to private ownership or control [syn: denationalization, denationalisation, privatization, privatisation] [ant: communisation, communization, nationalisation, nationalization]
• authorization 0
  n 1: a document giving an official instruction or command [syn: mandate, authorization, authorisation] 2: the power or right to give orders or make decisions; "he has the authority to issue warrants"; "deputies are given authorization to make arrests"; "a place of potency in the state" [syn: authority, authorization, authorisation, potency, dominance, say-so] 3: official permission or approval; "authority for the program was renewed several times" [syn: authority, authorization, authorisation, sanction] 4: the act of conferring legality or sanction or formal warrant [syn: authorization, authorisation, empowerment]
• arborization 0
• laicization 0
• salinization 0

See also minimization definition and minimization synonyms