"visualize" meaning in English

See visualize in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /ˈvɪʒʊəlaɪz/ [UK], /ˈvɪʒuəlaɪz/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-visualise.wav [UK] Forms: visualize [canonical], visualizes [third-person, singular], visualized [past], visualized [past, participle], visualizing [present, participle]
Etymology: visual + -ize Etymology templates: {{ety-suffix|visual|ize}} visual + -ize Head templates: {{verb|visualiz|e}} [POS TABLE]
  1. If you visualize something, then you try to imagine it. Synonyms: envision, conceive
    Sense id: simple-visualize-en-verb-G~32UvZm
  2. If you visualize something or someone, you make it visible.
    Sense id: simple-visualize-en-verb-3x7-PKOt
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): Terms suffixed with -ize
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