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tropicalize, v.|ˈtrɒpɪkəlaɪz|
Chiefly in pass. or as pa. pple. ˈtropicalized.
[f. tropical + -ize.]
1. trans. To make tropical; to give a tropical character to.
1885A. Brassey The Trades 125 Vegetation not unlike a patch of British fern suddenly transferred to a temperature of about fifty degrees above what it is accustomed to,—and thus, as it were ‘tropicalised’. 1888Harper's Mag. Sept. 616 The architecture is a tropicalized Swiss style.
2. To make suitable for use under tropical conditions.
1941W. S. Churchill Second World War (1950) III. 760 The German tanks recently captured by the Tobruk garrison... Are they tropicalised, desert-worthy, and fitted for use in the very hot weather? 1947Short Wave Mag. V. 234/1 All components are tropicalised. 1972Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 20 Oct. 50 All the woodwork in a Rolls..is ‘tropicalised’ by three coats of lacquer making it impervious to changes in temperature and humidity. 1978Gramophone Jan. 1335/3 The massive mains transformer is fully tropicalized and the primary winding is adjustable for input voltages of 110–120 and 220–240V AC. 1981Hi-Fi Answers Jan. 7/2 The manufacturer of the British amplifier made a ‘Point’ of claiming that his equipment had been tropicalised.
Hence ˌtropicaliˈzation.
1944Sun (Baltimore) 24 Sept. 5/4 For a year past our modern battleships have been undergoing a further measure of modernization and tropicalization to meet the rapid wartime changes in technical apparatus. 1980Nature 7 Feb. p. xii/1 Virtually any required type of impregnation, tropicalisation, potting or moulding (in epoxy, polyester or polyurethane) can be supplied. |