conceptualise

UK/kənˈsɛp.tj(uː.)ə.laɪz/US/kənˈsɛp.tj(u.)əˌlaɪz/

verbC1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechToo rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

Other forms: conceptualised, conceptualising, conceptualises

To conceptualise is to work an idea into a clear general form. Conceptualise the problem, hard to conceptualise.

It is the step between noticing something and being able to talk about it. Conceptualising badly is where most confused arguments begin.

Definitions of conceptualise

1verbconceptualiseTo work an idea into a clear general form.C1
“The team spent a month trying to conceptualise what the tool was for.”

conceptualise is a thinking.

Also accepted in games: conceptualize

Practised in Thinking & Memory

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conceptualise in the wild

Proving a solution to the three-dimensional case, despite being easy to conceptualise and model in the physical world, eluded mathematicians until the mid-20th century.
Kissing number
Another way to conceptualise the back door progression is with reference to the Axis System.
Backdoor progression
Politics has thus long been wedded to violence... it is hard to conceptualise a political ideology that does not have a resort to violence clause.
The Unconquerable World
Some writers conceptualise oto-palato-digital syndrome as a spectrum disorder including two similarly-presenting genetic syndromes, frontometaphyseal dysplasia and Melnick-Needles syndrome.
Oto-palato-digital syndrome

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