nonstandardization

English

Etymology

From non- +‎ standardization.

Noun

nonstandardization (countable and uncountable, plural nonstandardizations)

1. A lack of standardization.
   • 2003, Mica R. Endsley, Betty Bolte, Debra G. Jones, Designing for Situation Awareness: An Approach to User-Centered Design, →ISBN:

     This nonstandardization can be quite dangerous, however, and completely undermines shared SA in these systems.

   • 2004, Anton Wilson, Anton Wilson's Cinema Workshop, →ISBN, page 103:

     The lack of lens interchangeability among camera manufacturers is probably the hardest felt of all the nonstandardizations.

   • 2010, William K. Balzer, Lean Higher Education, →ISBN:

     The waste of nonstandardization occurs when resources are needed to compensate and correct for processes that are completed in an arbitrary and unpredictable way because standards are ignored.

   • 2016, Dorothy J. Solinger, China's Transition from Socialism?, →ISBN:

     Where information is hardest to come by for social, political, or cultural reasons, and where shortage, nonstandardization, and hence uncertainty and unpredictability are greatest, one would expect relational contracting, with its reassuring recurrence and its catering to idiosyncrasy, to be the solution of chice. Thus, in economies where shortage, nonstandardization, and weak information channels are pronounced, we would expect to find a prevalence of relational contracting.