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specularise

specularise is the alternative form of specularize.

Meaning of specularize

Verb

specularize (third-person singular simple present specularizes, present participle specularizing, simple past and past participle specularized)

  1. To make specular or reflective.
    • Unlike most of the producing portion of the range, these ores and near-ores were subjected to mountain-building processes subsequent to their formation. These processes tend to specularize, or harden, the hematite.1938, Lake Superior Iron Ores, page 51
  2. To make visible; to elucidate, bring to light, or put on display.
    • Rising to a perspective that would dominate the totality, to the vantage point of the greatest power, he thus cuts himself off from the bedrock, from his empirical relationship with the matrix that he claims to survey to specularize and to speculate.1992, Stephen J. Pfohl, Death at the parasite cafe, page 70
  3. To make visual; to transform into or represent as visible image.
    • This temptation to specularize Canada in terms of its visibly exotic people must be avoided, largely because what this does is allow white power centres to continue to function, invisibly.1993, Fuse Magazine - Volume 17, page 13
  4. To view voyeuristically; to objectify as an object to be looked at.
    • Yet the overwhelming force of the drive to specularize is manifested by the fact that the second impulse is not concretized through the representation of 'ugly' or even 'unattractive' women.1990, Manuel Alvarado, John O. Thompson, The Media reader, page 279

Forms of specularise

third-person singular presentspecularises
present participlespecularising
past participlespecularised
pastspecularised

Questions about specularise

What is specularise the alternative form of?
Specularise is the alternative form of specularize.

Words near specularise in the dictionary

  1. speculants
  2. specular
  3. specular iron
  4. specular stone
  5. specular stones
  6. specularise
  7. specularised
  8. specularises
  9. specularising
  10. specularite
  11. specularites

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Adapted from Wiktionary: specularise (page history and authors); specularize (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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