marginalize
verb
- to make marginal
- to relegate to an unimportant or powerless position within a society or group
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.
- 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.”
- 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.”