featurization

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noun

The development of additional features.

Scrabble 25

Meanings

nounfeaturization (countable and uncountable, plural featurizations)

plural featurizations

  1. countableuncountablecomputingThe development of additional features.
  2. countableuncountableThe adaptation of a serial etc. into a feature film.

    Being only 65 minutes long yet featuring a large percentage of the thrills from the serial, at the expense of almost all narrative coherency, Lost Planet Airmen is one of the most dizzying, frenetic serial featurizations ever pieced together.

    2017, Bill Warren, Keep Watching the Skies!
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    New feature versions, running longer than the original theatrical featurizations, were also prepared, with two features edited from Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (which had never spawned a theatrical feature) covering virtually the entire serial.

    2015, Roy Kinnard, Science Fiction Serials, page 40

Origin

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Chicago

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