visualize

[vizh-oo-uh-lahyz]

verb (used without object), vis·u·al·ized, vis·u·al·iz·ing.

to recall or form mental images or pictures.

verb (used with object), vis·u·al·ized, vis·u·al·iz·ing.

to make visual or visible.
to form a mental image of.
to make perceptible to the mind or imagination.

Also especially British, vis·u·al·ise.

Origin of visualize

First recorded in 1810–20; visual + -ize

Related formsvis·u·al·iz·a·ble, adjectivevis·u·al·i·za·tion, nounvis·u·al·iz·er, vis·u·al·ist, nounnon·vis·u·al·ized, adjectivere·vis·u·al·i·za·tion, nounre·vis·u·al·ize, verb, re·vis·u·al·ized, re·vis·u·al·iz·ing.un·vis·u·al·ized, adjectivewell-vis·u·al·ized, adjective

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Examples from the Web for visualizer

Historical Examples of visualizer

I am not a 'visualizer;' I have infrequent hypnagogic hallucinations, and they are all of the auditory type.
Essay on the Creative Imagination
Th. Ribot

British Dictionary definitions for visualizer

visualize

visualise

verb

to form a mental image of (something incapable of being viewed or not at that moment visible)
med to view by means of an X-ray the outline of (a bodily organ, structure, or part)

Derived Formsvisualizer or visualiser, noun

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Word Origin and History for visualizer

visualize

1817, first attested in, and perhaps coined by, Coleridge; see visual + -ize. Related: Visualized; visualizing.