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spatialise

spatialise is the alternative form of spatialize.

Meaning of spatialize

Verb

spatialize (third-person singular simple present spatializes, present participle spatializing, simple past and past participle spatialized)

  1. (transitive) To localize sounds in physical space.
    • On things that change as they move, Mr. Lelong writes, “when the composer spatializes a sound object — whether it is a chord, a motif or a rhythm — the sound object that is set in motion evolves, or to put it another way, the motion stimulated by the compositional process transforms the object...2007 July 8, Bernard Holland, “Don’t Let Words Get in the Way”, in New York Times
  2. (transitive) To place into a physical or geographical context.

Forms of spatialise

third-person singular presentspatialises
present participlespatialising
past participlespatialised
pastspatialised

Origin of spatialise

From spatial + -ise.

Questions about spatialise

What is spatialise the alternative form of?
Spatialise is the alternative form of spatialize.

Words near spatialise in the dictionary

  1. spatial unmasking
  2. spatial wave function
  3. spatial wave functions
  4. spatialisation
  5. spatialisations
  6. spatialise
  7. spatialised
  8. spatialises
  9. spatialising
  10. Spatialism
  11. spatialities

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spatialise (page history and authors); spatialize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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