hybridize

present singular third person hybridizes · participle present hybridizing · participle past hybridized · past hybridized · alternative hybridise

1. To form a mixture of any kind.

   Brainstorming methods other than the KJ technique will be mentioned later, but to come up with new ideas, it is easier to merge different ideas, or in other words, to cross-fertilize or hybridize ideas and improve upon them.

   2008, Akira Ishikawa, Creative Marketing for New Product and New Business Development

2. transitiveTo cross-breed animals or plants to form hybrids.
3. intransitiveTo produce hybrid offspring; to interbreed.
4. transitiveTo construct a hybrid word from elements of different languages.
5. natural sciencesTo combine atomic orbitals mathematically to form hybrid orbitals.
6. biochemistryTo combine complementary subunits of multiple biological macromolecules.