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marginalize

verb

  1. to make marginal
  2. to relegate to an unimportant or powerless position within a society or group
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈmɑːdʒɪnəlaɪz/ / /ˈmɑɹdʒɪnəlaɪz/

verb

Etymology: Etymology tree English marginal Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English marginalize From marginal + -ize.

  1. To relegate (something, especially a topic or a group of people) to the margins or to a lower limit; to exclude socially or otherwise.

    The practice of only analysing Indian English in terms of how it differs from a notional standard English that resides in the Englishes of the varieties of the Inner Circle is one of the key ways in which Indian English is marginalised.

  2. To find a marginal distribution of a joint probability distribution.

    Ideally, we would like to integrate out the parameters #92;theta, i.e. marginalize in order to obtain a prediction. Since this is again hard to realize analytically, one usually approximates the integral via sampling from the posterior.