[syn: visualize, visualise]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Visualize \Vis"u*al*ize\, v. t.
1. To make visual, or visible. [Written also visualise.]
[1913 Webster]
2. to see in the imagination; to form a mental image of.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
No one who has not seen them [glaciers] can possibly
visualize them. --Lubbock.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
visualise
v 1: view the outline of by means of an X-ray; "The radiologist
can visualize the cancerous liver" [syn: visualize,
visualise]
2: form a mental picture of something that is invisible or
abstract; "Mathematicians often visualize" [syn: visualize,
visualise]
3: imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind; "I can't see him on
horseback!"; "I can see what will happen"; "I can see a risk
in this strategy" [syn: visualize, visualise, envision,
project, fancy, see, figure, picture, image]
4: make visible; "With this machine, ultrasound can be
visualized" [syn: visualize, visualise]