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rationalisation
     n 1: psychiatry a defense mechanism by which your true
          motivation is concealed by explaining your actions and
          feelings in a way that is not threatening syn: rationalization
     2: the cognitive process of making something seem consistent
        with or based on reason syn: rationalization
     3: mathematics the simplification of an expression or
        equation by eliminating radicals without changing the
        value of the expression or the roots of the equation syn:
         rationalization
     4: the organization of a business according to scientific
        principles of management in order to increase efficiency
        syn: rationalization
     5: systematic organization; the act of organizing something
        according to a system or a rationale syn: systematization,
         systematisation, rationalization
see also:
rationalization systematization systematisation 

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