spatialize

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verb

To localize sounds in physical space.

Scrabble 21

Meanings

verbspatialize (third-person singular simple present spatializes, present participle spatializing, simple past and past participle spatialized)

present singular third person spatializes · participle present spatializing · participle past spatialized · past spatialized

  1. transitiveartTo localize sounds in physical space.
    1 more example

    On things that change as they move, Mr. Lelong writes, “when the composer spatializes a sound object — whether it is a chord, a motif or a rhythm — the sound object that is set in motion evolves, or to put it another way, the motion stimulated by the compositional process transforms the object, whereas previously works of spatial music merely give an impression of the same object moving unchanged through space.”

    2007 July 8, Bernard Holland, “Don’t Let Words Get in the Way”, in New York Times
  2. transitivehuman sciencesTo place into a physical or geographical context.

Origin

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APA

spatialize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spatialize

MLA

“spatialize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spatialize. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “spatialize,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spatialize.

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