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To visualize something is to make a picture of it in your mind — to see it with your eyes closed, so to speak. 'Close your eyes and visualize the front door of your childhood home.' It is a fairly deliberate word. You do not visualize by accident; you sit down and do it on purpose, usually because you are trying to understand something, remember something, or get ready for something. Athletes visualize the perfect serve before a match. An architect visualizes the finished building. A student visualizes the layout of a page to remember what was on it. There is a second, very common use with people: 'I can't visualize him as a father' — meaning I cannot picture it, it does not seem to fit. Here it comes close to 'imagine', but with the picture part emphasised. And there is the technical use: to visualize data means to turn it into a chart or diagram so it can be seen. Scientists and programmers use it this way every day. The grammar is simple: you visualize something, or you visualize somebody doing something ('I can visualize her running the whole company one day'). Spelling: visualize in the US, visualise is normal in British writing.
想像（在腦中形成畫面）；把資料視覺化
組成visual ('to do with seeing') + -ize, the ending that makes a verb meaning 'to make or do this thing'. Visual traces back to Latin videre, 'to see'.
同家族的字
- visualvisualize is visual + -ize
- visualizationthe noun made from visualize
- visionboth from Latin videre, to see
- visiblesame root, videre
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
visualizeverb/ˈvɪʒʊəlaɪz/
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To perceive (something) visually; to see.
- Be sure to find an area far away from the city or street lights, the darker the better. Lean back or lie flat on your back with your feet facing south and visualize as much of the sky as possible. Most meteors appear as faint streaks in the sky.
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To depict (something) in a way which can be seen.
- to visualize data using a chart
- When [Vincent] van Gogh paints sunflowers, he reveals, or achieves, the vivid relation between himself, as man, and the sunflower, as sunflower, at that quick moment in time. His painting does not represent the sunflower itself. We shall never know what the sunflower itself is. And the camera will visualize the sunflower far more perfectly than van Gogh can. The vision on the canvas is a third thing, utterly intangible and inexplicable, the offspring of the sunflower itself and van Gogh himself.
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To form a mental picture of (something); to picture (something) in the mind; to envisage.
- In our own poetry we get from [Geoffrey] Chaucer the first instance of self-analysis and description, the first case of visualising self.
- 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.
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medicinesciencesTo make (a hidden or unclear body part, process, or object) visible by optical methods (such as endoscopy, magnetic resonance imaging, ultrasound, or X-rays), or other techniques.
- An investigation is described in which the phenomena of afterglow were utilized to make visible the low-density supersonic flows of various gases. […] The afterglow is shown to be effective in visualizing some of the features of the flow in this range of low densities where it is difficult or impracticable to obtain comparable results with schlieren methods.
- 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.
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To perceive something visually.
- His first impression was that he had tackled a dozen Oochaks instead of one. Beyond that first impression his mind did not work, nor did his eyes visualize.
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To form a mental picture of something; to picture something in the mind.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。