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hybridise

hybridise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of hybridize.

Meaning of hybridize

Verb

hybridize (third-person singular simple present hybridizes, present participle hybridizing, simple past and past participle hybridized)

  1. To form a mixture of any kind.
    • Brainstorming methods other than the KJ technique will be mentioned later, but to come up with new ideas, it is easier to merge different ideas, or in other words, to cross-fertilize or hybridize ideas and improve upon them.2008, Akira Ishikawa, Creative Marketing for New Product and New Business Development
  2. (transitive) To cross-breed animals or plants to form hybrids.
  3. (intransitive) To produce hybrid offspring; to interbreed.
  4. (transitive) To construct a hybrid word from elements of different languages.
  5. To combine atomic orbitals mathematically to form hybrid orbitals.
  6. To combine complementary subunits of multiple biological macromolecules.

Forms of hybridise

third-person singular presenthybridises
present participlehybridising
past participlehybridised
pasthybridised

Origin of hybridise

From hybrid + -ise.

Words formed from hybridise

Questions about hybridise

What is hybridise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Hybridise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of hybridize.

Words near hybridise in the dictionary

  1. hybridicity
  2. hybriding
  3. hybridisable
  4. hybridisation
  5. hybridisations
  6. hybridise
  7. hybridised
  8. hybridiser
  9. hybridisers
  10. hybridises
  11. hybridising

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