conceptualize

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conceptualise (non-Oxford British spelling)

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Verb edit

conceptualize (third-person singular simple present conceptualizes, present participle conceptualizing, simple past and past participle conceptualized)

To interpret a phenomenon by forming a concept.
- 2018, Sandeep Jauhar, Heart: a History, →ISBN, page 150:
  Medicine today conceptualizes the heart as a machine.
To conceive the idea for something.
- 2023, Emily Nickerson and Christian Schmidt, “Database review: EconBiz”, in Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship, volume 28, number 4, page 303:
  EconBiz was established as part of the Virtuelle Fachbibliotheken, a network of subject-related online portals conceptualized in the late 1990s and funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

Translations edit

to interpret by forming a concept

Catalan: conceptualitzar (ca)
Finnish: käsitteellistää, muodostaa käsite
Irish: coincheap, coincheapaigh, samhlaigh (ga), teibigh
Italian: concepire (it)
Portuguese: ^{(please verify)} conceitualizar, ^{(please verify)} conceptualizar
Spanish: conceptualizar (es)
Turkish: kavramsallaştırmak

to conceive the idea for something

Catalan: conceptualitzar (ca)
Finnish: hahmotella (fi), hahmottaa (fi)
Italian: concettualizzare
Turkish: kavramsallaştırmak

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French: ^{(please verify)} conceptualiser (fr)