aspectualizes

Verb

aspectualize (third-person singular simple present aspectualizes, present participle aspectualizing, simple past and past participle aspectualized)

1. To convert into or treat as an aspect.
   • The funny part about all this is that we tend to—excuse the word—aspectualize or abstract a specific behavior, a specific response, assuming that all other responses in that class are random and, therefore, not very important.1971, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (U.S.), Issues in Human Development, page 120
2. To divide into multiple aspects.
   • I argue, in the next chapter, that semantic networks allow us to aspectualize alethic modalities.2002, Jean-Pierre Malrieu, Evaluative Semantics: Cognition, Language and Ideology, page 159
3. To impart a particular aspect to a verb.
   • Thus while there is a tendency towards nativization and regularization of these borrowed verbs, by the creation of perfective forms that thereby assimilate the verb to the predominant native pattern of an imperfective and a matching, prefixed, perfective formation, so that we can generalize that...1997, Proceedings from the Main Session of the Chicago Linguistic Society, volume 33, page 206
4. To use as an implementation for aspects.
   • The mixin and aspect code generators in JULIA provide a lightweight, flexible yet efficient means to aspectualize components.2004, Eric Bruneton, Thierry Coupaye, Matthieu Leclercq, Vivien Quema, Jean-Bernard Stefani, Ivica Crnkovic, “An Open Component Model and Its Support in Java”, in Component-Based Software Engineering