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[vizh-oo-uh-lahyz]

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verb (used without object)

to recall or form mental images or pictures.

verb (used with object)

to make visual or visible.

to form a mental image of.

to make perceptible to the mind or imagination.

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Also, especially British, vis·u·al·ise.

Origin:
1810–20; visual + -ize

Related forms

vis·u·al·iz·a·ble, adjective

vis·u·al·i·za·tion, noun

vis·u·al·iz·er, vis·u·al·ist, noun

non·vis·u·al·ized, adjective

re·vis·u·al·i·za·tion, noun

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re·vis·u·al·ize, verb, -ized, -iz·ing.

un·vis·u·al·ized, adjective

well-vis·u·al·ized, adjective

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As one student reads, ask the others to close their eyes and try to visualize what they are hearing.

He said he could visualize customers lining up, and they simply would appear, in greater and greater numbers.

It also can expand their vocabulary by helping them visualize and create their own imagery for the topic.

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As one student reads, ask the others to close their eyes and try to visualize what they are hearing.

He said he could visualize customers lining up, and they simply would appear, in greater and greater numbers.

It also can expand their vocabulary by helping them visualize and create their own imagery for the topic.

But as a first approximation to help us visualize something that is so invisible, that image works as a metaphor.

It's important to visualize the ultimate height and spread of any tree you consider.

It allows you to visualize the positions of debris around the old blue marble.

It is hard to visualize a brilliant scientist destroying himself with such spectacular childishness.

They actually initially suggested it would be a useful way for students to visualize and therefore.

T7 to help them visualize what the writer describes.

Interesting that they can visualize the loss of neurotransmission along the axon.

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These speakers are so unusual that even veteran audio fans find it hard to visualize how they work.

Our watchdogs will be able to do visualize many new scenarios with tremendous scalability.

Einstein had to visualize and evaluate people's inventions based on drawings and specifications.

Consider these images to help visualize the situation:.

When outside the office, researchers can enter values into the app to find answers quickly or visualize data.

Phantom arms that punch through the walls and seize her visualize her nightmare insanity.

He has created us as a human with brain to visualize what is good and what is bad.

During reading, students will have a chance to visualize what the writer describes to better understand what icebergs are like.

It's true the mathematical models will help us visualize the possibilities.

It lets them visualize and share that information and then design around it".

Kabakov provides us with a bilingual text to help us visualize more clearly his wonderfully various cast of characters.

It's not sick, but it's easy to visualize its hazards.

Discuss the meaning, asking students to explain what they visualize when they read those sentences.

Stone, who works in a group that develops software used by scientists to simulate and visualize biomolecular.

As such, it boasted an array of special acoustic gear meant to help it visualize the complex world beneath the pack ice.

As they read, ask them to fi nd and write down words or descriptions that help them visualize what the author is describing.

Perhaps you visualize a person sitting comfortably in an armchair, lost in thought, perusing a few old books.

Garrett's friends and family sat with him and helped him visualize the game worlds by describing what objects looked like.

Both of these modalities allow the gastroenterologist to better visualize the small.

The key is to think and visualize what you want-and celebrate it as it happens.

Akin to speed and acceleration, best to visualize time as a point on a wheel as it rolls along.

However, it's useful to pick a spot ahead of time so you can visualize the act.

He did not, as his early detractors insisted, merely visualize musical structure onstage with patterns or dancers.

They couldn't visualize the flight of a spear through the air and so never threw the spear.

Similarly, seeing a great white shark leap completely out of the water enables you visualize it in other than usual ways.

The best way to deal with abstract ideas of such enormousness is to visualize them in a concrete way.

Visualize a solar energy receiver about the sized of a home heat pump.

Try to visualize how each element will move and how it will affect the other parts of the animation.

He gave me the freedom to visualize a different path as a black parent.

It really helps to cut up some cardboard into irregular pieces so you can visualize.

But it was one thing to visualize the insurgents' improvised explosive device.

Nor does it visualize rhythmic patterns that start in unison and fall out of phase with one another.

The next person will graph and visualize the data for easier understanding.

To visualize this, imagine that you're writing on a huge sheet of graph paper.

They also took locusts and tethered them inside a wind tunnel equipped with a smoke generator to help visualize airflow.

People that visualize heat and have training in mental discipline can create temperature changes detectable in thermal imagers.

They could look at the floor and visualize the nascent ship in the round.

Thus the multiple worlds hypothesis might make it easier to quickly grasp or visualize what the theory will predict.

Some people look at the hole rather than the ball, or visualize the back of the cup.

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World English Dictionary

visualize or visualise (ˈvɪʒʊəˌlaɪz, -zjʊ-, ˈvɪʒʊəˌlaɪz, -zjʊ-)

—vb
1.	to form a mental image of (something incapable of being viewed or not at that moment visible)
2.	med to view by means of an X-ray the outline of (a bodily organ, structure, or part)

visualise or visualise

—vb

'visualizer or visualise

—n

'visualiser or visualise

—n

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Word Origin & History

visualize

1817, first attested in, and perhaps was coined by, Coleridge; see visual + -ize.

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"When van Gogh paints sunflowers, he reveals, or achieves, the vivid relation between himself, as man, and the sunflower, as sunflower, at that quick moment of time. His painting does not represent the sunflower itself. We shall never know what the sunflower itself is. And the camera will visualize the sunflower far more perfectly than van Gogh can."

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