mathematicize
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Etymology edit
mathematic + -ize
Verb edit
mathematicize (third-person singular simple present mathematicizes, present participle mathematicizing, simple past and past participle mathematicized)
- (transitive) To render mathematical.
- 2007 January 7, George Johnson, “Dancing With the Stars”, in New York Times[1]:
- But that’s Dyson: as resistant to categorization as the universe his colleagues are trying to mathematicize. “