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lingualizations

lingualizations is the plural of lingualization.

Meaning of lingualization

Noun

lingualization (countable and uncountable, plural lingualizations)

  1. The act of representing something as a text in some language.
  2. The ability to represent something as text.
    • In the process of lingualization the child internalizes the system of language values and norms […]1997, Pondicherry Institute of Linguistics and Culture, https://books.google.com/books?id=XpR2AAAAIAAJ&q=%22lingualization%22&dq=%22lingualization%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiUsan0nojPAhUJLmMKHXx1Do0Q6A...
  3. The process of a sound becoming lingual.
  4. (orthodontics) The procedure of moving teeth towards the tongue side of the arch.
    • As already stated, there is a natural mechanism in most Class III cases that compensates for the sagittal skeletal discrepancy, so that during growth a lingualization of the mandibular incisors develops together with a vestibularization […]2005, Paolo Ronchi, Orthodontic-surgical treatment of dentofacial anomalies: an integrated esthetic-functional approach

Questions about lingualizations

What is lingualizations the plural of?
Lingualizations is the plural of lingualization.

Words near lingualizations in the dictionary

  1. lingual tonsils
  2. linguales
  3. lingualis
  4. linguality
  5. lingualization
  6. lingualizations
  7. lingualize
  8. lingualized
  9. lingualizes
  10. lingualizing
  11. lingually

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