That's a tough one.

streamline?
unify?
reduce?
trim?

None of those quite fits, though.

English has a number of nouns for the basic concept, including "unique" and
"distinct". However, I can't think of (or find online) a verb for that
concept.

FWIW (not much, I suspect)

Jay Bryant
Bryant Communication Services

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dimitre Novatchev" <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2006 7:41 PM
Subject:  What is a better word for "de-duplication"?


> I want to use a single, short word to express the act of removing
> duplicates from a node-set. I remember seing the word "de-duplication"
> used, however it sounds ugly.
>
> Could someone suggest a better word, please?
>
> -- 
> Cheers,
> Dimitre Novatchev
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