rationalize
/ˈræʃənəlaɪz/
verb
- To try to find logical reasons to explain or justify behavior, thoughts, or feelings, especially when the real reasons are less acceptable.
- She rationalized eating the whole cake by telling herself she had had a hard day.
- Don't rationalize your bad habits; just admit you need to change.
- He tried to rationalize his decision to quit by saying the job was too stressful.
- To make a company, system, or process more efficient by removing unnecessary parts or simplifying it.
- The new CEO plans to rationalize the company's supply chain to reduce costs.
- The school district decided to rationalize its bus routes to save fuel.
- They rationalized the software by eliminating redundant features.
- In mathematics, to eliminate radicals or irrational numbers from the denominator of a fraction.
- To rationalize 3/√5, you multiply the numerator and denominator by √5.
- The teacher showed them how to rationalize expressions involving cube roots.
- The students learned how to rationalize the denominator of a fraction with a square root.
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