| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | con·cep·tu·al·ize |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  k n-s p ch --l z |
| VERB: | Inflected forms: con·cep·tu·al·ized, con·cep·tu·al·iz·ing, con·cep·tu·al·iz·es
| | TRANSITIVE VERB: | To form a concept or concepts of, and especially to interpret in a conceptual way: “Efforts to conceptualize the history and structure of the universe were already running into trouble because . . . the universe was not as uniform as had been assumed” (John Noble Wilford). | | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | To form concepts. | | OTHER FORMS: | con·ceptu·al·i·zation (-spch--l -z shn) —NOUN
con·ceptu·al·izer —NOUN
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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