visualise

present singular third person visualises · participle present visualising · participle past visualised · past visualised

1. Non-Oxford British spelling of visualize.

   In our own poetry we get from [Geoffrey] Chaucer the first instance of self-analysis and description, the first case of visualising self.

   1899, F. F. Leighton, “‘In My Mind’s Eye, Horatio’”, in Life and Books, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin […], →OCLC, page 13

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   The humanitarian, frequently ignoring hard reality, visualises one cosmopolitan community where justice and social sympathy measured in terms of some one set of units reign supreme.

   1921 October, Lynden Macassey, “Labour and the League of Nations […] [book reviews]”, in Harold Cox, editor, The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal, volume 234, number 478, London: Longmans, Green & Co.; New York, N.Y.: Leonard Scott Publication Company, →OCLC, page 249

   Trains have increased in weight far beyond anything visualised when the bridge was designed, but it has never undergone any major structural alterations, and continues to carry main-line traffic without weight restriction.

   1950 September, “Centenary of the Royal Border Bridge”, in The Railway Magazine, London: Tothill Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 637

   Possible developments such as electric or diesel suburban services may be visualised when the town has grown sufficiently to justify them.

   1950 October, R. A. Marshall, “Kuala Lumpur, an Important Malayan Railway Centre”, in The Railway Magazine, London: Tothill Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 706

   When small masses are to be detected, it is necessary to visualise as much of the lung as possible with as little structured noise as possible. This is accomplished with high-voltage, wide-latitude, image recording and possibly beam equalisation.

   2003, International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements, Image Quality in Chest Radiography (ICRU Report; 70), Ashford, Kent: Nuclear Technology Publishing, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 84