Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - homogenization

 noun  Date: 1908  1. the act or process of homogenizing  2. the quality or state of being homogenized HOMOGENIZE  verb  (-nized; -nizing)  Date: 1886  transitive verb  1.  a. to blend (diverse elements) into a uniform mixture  b. to make homogeneous  2.  a. to reduce to small particles of uniform size and distribute evenly usually in a liquid  b. to reduce the particles of so that they are uniformly small and evenly distributed; specifically to break up the fat globules of (milk) into very fine particles  intransitive verb to become ~d  • ~r noun