Converted something into a standard, accepted form or rule, like organizing a messy system into one official way of doing things.
From canonical (from Latin canonicus, meaning 'according to rule') plus -ize (a suffix meaning 'to make or become'). The term evolved in computing and mathematics to mean reducing something to its simplest standard form.
Computer scientists use 'canonicalize' to convert different versions of the same data into one official format—like how 'www.example.com' and 'example.com' get standardized to one URL, making systems work faster and more reliably.
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