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specularized

specularized is the simple past and past participle 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

Questions about specularized

What is specularized the simple past and past participle of?
Specularized is the simple past and past participle of specularize.

Words near specularized in the dictionary

  1. specularities
  2. specularity
  3. specularization
  4. specularizations
  5. specularize
  6. specularized
  7. specularizes
  8. specularizing
  9. specularly
  10. speculary
  11. speculate

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