conceptualize

English

Alternative forms

• conceptualise (non-Oxford British spelling)

Etymology

From conceptual +‎ -ize.

Verb

conceptualize (third-person singular simple present conceptualizes, present participle conceptualizing, simple past and past participle conceptualized)

1. 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.

2. 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

• conceptualizable
• conceptualization
• conceptualizer
• deconceptualize
• misconceptualize
• misconceptualized
• nonconceptualized
• reconceptualize
• unconceptualized

 

Translations

to interpret by forming a concept

• Catalan: conceptualitzar (ca)
• Dutch: conceptualiseren (nl)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 概念化 (zh) (gàiniànhuà)

• Finnish: käsitteellistää, muodostaa käsite
• French: conceptualiser (fr)
• Irish: coincheap, coincheapaigh, samhlaigh (ga), teibigh
• Italian: concepire (it)
• Polish: konceptualizować
• Portuguese: ^{(please verify)} conceitualizar, ^{(please verify)} conceptualizar
• Spanish: conceptualizar (es)
• Turkish: kavramsallaştırmak

to conceive the idea for something

• Catalan: conceptualitzar (ca)
• Finnish: hahmotella (fi), hahmottaa (fi)
• Italian: concettualizzare
• Turkish: kavramsallaştırmak

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• French: ^{(please verify)} conceptualiser (fr)