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specularization

specularization noun: the act or process of specularizing.

Noun

specularization (countable and uncountable, plural specularizations)

  1. The act or process of specularizing.
    • Here is a sentence (or what I took to be one because it ended with a period) from the contribution by the Frenchman Jacques Derrida, the volume’s most prestigious name: “He speaks his mother tongue as the language of the other and deprives himself of all reappropriation, all specularization in it.”2009 April 19, Walter Kirn, “Deconstructing Princeton”, in New York Times

Forms of specularization

pluralspecularizations

Origin of specularization

From specular + -ization.

Questions about specularization

What does specularization mean?
Specularization means the act or process of specularizing.
What part of speech is specularization?
Specularization is a noun.
What is the plural of specularization?
The plural of specularization is specularizations.

Words near specularization in the dictionary

  1. specularising
  2. specularite
  3. specularites
  4. specularities
  5. specularity
  6. specularization
  7. specularizations
  8. specularize
  9. specularized
  10. specularizes
  11. specularizing

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