| 释义 |
diˈmensionalize, v.
[f. dimensional a. + -ize.]
trans. To consider or describe (an object, a concept) from the point of view of its dimensions in time, space, etc. Hence diˈmensionalized ppl. a.
1966J. S. Bruner Beyond Information Given (1974) xviii. 323 The subject..was asked, ‘Which one is the longest?’..By offering him dimensionalized verbal labeling as she did, she encouraged symbolic representation by linguistic encoding. 1973E. S. Shneidman Deaths of Man (1975) xi. 127 There is nothing at all inexorable about our ways of dimensionalizing death. Conceptualizations of death are man-made and mutable; what man can make he can also clarify and change. 1977R. Holland Self & Social Context v. 156 It is possible to study the content of a person's construing, its dimensionality and the structures of the dimensionalized life space. 1983S. I. Offenbach Concept of Dimension in Research on Children's Learning 33 Younger children might be able to dimensionalize stimuli whose colours are red and green (or whose shapes are star and triangle), whereas they cannot dimensionalize stimuli that are red and blue (or circle and triangle). |