Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To put into final form; complete.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb to put the last touches on; put into final form.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To make
final orfirm ; tofinish orcomplete . - verb transitive, computing, programming To prepare (an object) for
garbage collection by calling itsfinalizer .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make final; put the last touches on; put into final form
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word finalize.
Examples
-
Yet the word finalize may be misleading; you are never truly finished with goal setting.
Having It All John Assaraf 2003
-
The Univar/Chemcentral deal-the combined company will have nearly $6 billion in sales-takes place after a year that saw Brenntag finalize its acquisition of Los Angeles Chemical after purchasing Quadra Chemical in the fall of 2005.
-
The Univar/Chemcentral deal-the combined company will have nearly $6 billion in sales-takes place after a year that saw Brenntag finalize its acquisition of Los Angeles Chemical after purchasing Quadra Chemical in the fall of 2005.
-
The Univar/Chemcentral deal-the combined company will have nearly $6 billion in sales-takes place after a year that saw Brenntag finalize its acquisition of Los Angeles Chemical after purchasing Quadra Chemical in the fall of 2005.
-
The Univar/Chemcentral deal-the combined company will have nearly $6 billion in sales-takes place after a year that saw Brenntag finalize its acquisition of Los Angeles Chemical after purchasing Quadra Chemical in the fall of 2005.
-
The Univar/Chemcentral deal-the combined company will have nearly $6 billion in sales-takes place after a year that saw Brenntag finalize its acquisition of Los Angeles Chemical after purchasing Quadra Chemical in the fall of 2005.
-
The Univar/Chemcentral deal-the combined company will have nearly $6 billion in sales-takes place after a year that saw Brenntag finalize its acquisition of Los Angeles Chemical after purchasing Quadra Chemical in the fall of 2005.
-
The Univar/Chemcentral deal-the combined company will have nearly $6 billion in sales-takes place after a year that saw Brenntag finalize its acquisition of Los Angeles Chemical after purchasing Quadra Chemical in the fall of 2005.
-
The Univar/Chemcentral deal-the combined company will have nearly $6 billion in sales-takes place after a year that saw Brenntag finalize its acquisition of Los Angeles Chemical after purchasing Quadra Chemical in the fall of 2005.
-
Non deterministic finalization means GC calls finalize method of object not right after object goes out of scope rather when GC got idle time to prioritize it.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.