Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To form a mental image of; envisage.
- intransitive verb To engage in psychological visualization with regard to (pain or a body process, for example).
- intransitive verb To render visible, as in an image or representation.
- intransitive verb To produce an image or visual representation of (an internal body part or action, for example) by radiological or other technology.
- intransitive verb To form a mental image.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Hence, in literature, to make (a character) appear real by vividness and force of description.
- To make visual or visible; make that which is perceived by the mind only visible to the eye; externalize to the eye.
- To call up a mental image or picture with a distinctness approaching actual vision.
- Also spelled
visualise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To make visual, or visible.
- transitive verb To see in the imagination; to form a mental image of.
- intransitive verb To form a mental image of something not present before the eye at the time.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb American Alternative spelling of
visualise .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb view the outline of by means of an X-ray
- verb imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
- verb make visible
- verb form a mental picture of something that is invisible or abstract
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Examples
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The word visualize literally means “to see in the mind.”
Having It All John Assaraf 2003
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The idea that a wormhole leads you out of our spacetime, while easier to visualize, is incorrect.
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The world you visualize is a lawless jungle of arbitrary violence where the strong rule absolutely.
Immigration Reform, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The world you visualize is a lawless jungle of arbitrary violence where the strong rule absolutely.
Immigration Reform, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The idea that a wormhole leads you out of our spacetime, while easier to visualize, is incorrect.
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The idea that a wormhole leads you out of our spacetime, while easier to visualize, is incorrect.
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My comments refer to the 2D plus time scenario, which besides being easier to visualize is the one which is usually illustrated in physics books.
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Once you call the visualize () method on a table, the new chart element will be returned to the method, allowing you to continue your jQuery chain acting upon the chart instead of the table.
Ideal Absolutes 2009
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And reading without anything to visualize is sort of like chewing on hay – it’s bland, to say the least; or even worse, it’s like walking in the dark waving your hands around looking for something to grab on to.
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Since calling the visualize () method returns the new chart element, it's easy to immediately append the chart to another area of the page using jQuery's appendTo method.
Ideal Absolutes 2009
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