conceptualize
English
editAlternative forms
edit- conceptualise (non-Oxford British spelling)
Etymology
editFrom conceptual + -ize.
Verb
editconceptualize (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).
Derived terms
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editto interpret by forming a concept
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to conceive the idea for something
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