Unify/Unification or something else?

[Unomyname]

Hi everyone,
I am struggling to find the right word in the English language.
My intuition tells me it should be "unify" or "unification", depending on whether I'm looking for a verb or a noun. However, dictionary meanings tell me that this is not what I'm looking for.
I am completely lost here.

I need a word that refers to taking several diverse whatevers and making them all the same, while they still remain separate whatevers. (Example: take legislations of 5 countries and ____ them, i.e. they remain separate from one another, but the content is the same).

All dictionaries that i looked up say that "unify" and "unification" refer to taking several diverse whatevers and making them ONE. (Example: take 3 small countries and unify them, which would result in one new country where the 3 former ones would cease to exist).

Again, I need the word that would clearly refer to making many same, not one.

Thanks!

[Alan]

Hi,

Possibly 'unite' could suit what you are looking for. This obviously comes up in 'United Nations'.

Alan
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[Mister Micawber]

Correlate? Synchronize? Collate? Integrate? Reconcile? These words all refer to that kind of process in different situations.
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[Unomyname]

[Yuri Yurinov]

Dear Unomyname,

Will the word " uniform" as a verb and the same word as an adjective solve your puzzle?

Good luck.

Yuri
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[Planta]

Hello there,

Reading your post, the first suggestions that crossed my Portuguese-speaking mind were:
1) standardize
2) equalize
Yuri's "to uniform" also seems valid, but maybe too relatable to clothing (what do natives say about this?).
The action "regularize" may imply that they (the whatevers) (<- cool name for a teenager garage band, hu?) were all "irregular"/"wrong"/"worse" before, but it's still a specialized way to meet your demand...

This all, of course, bears in mind your "1 word only" request, because you can always say "make them (/the whatevers) equal", "bring them to a standard (that results from their merge/combination/unification/coincidences/your-chance-to-specify-the-method-and-how-they'll-all-look-like)"

Hope this helps!

Multiple, equally-cheerful (but still individual) cheers,
Planta.