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ˈverticalize, v.
[f. vertical a. + -ize.]
trans. and absol. To render vertical, in any sense. Hence ˈverticalized, ˈverticalizing ppl. adjs.
1959Times Rev. Industry Dec. 6/3 The..Fair..was one of the first..trade fairs to verticalize by organising..specialised events during..a year, rather than staging one general fair. 1964M. Critchley Developmental Dyslexia ix. 59 There is a tendency for the child to convert figures, especially those that are verticalised and closed, into a man by drawing a face within the enclosure. 1965Economist 2 Jan. 54/2 The three or four main ‘verticalising’ companies will have less to feed their appetites and more time to digest what they have. 1982Christian Sci. Monitor 21 Sept. b2/2 As a matter of corporate policy, Hewlett-Packard divisions are ‘verticalized’, each one functioning as a small company on its own.
Also ˌverticaliˈzation, the action or result of verticalizing.
1962G. Perle Serial Composition & Atonality iii. 42 Verticalization..represents a fundamental concept of atonal composition—that any group of notes which is statable in horizontal succession is also statable as a simultaneity.., a concept sometimes designated by the rather questionable term, ‘vertical melody’. 1964M. Critchley Developmental Dyslexia ix. 59 There is some disorientation of the background, usually by rotation of mobile figures, or by ‘verticalisation’. 1965Economist 19 June 1439/3 Courtaulds being particularly weak in weaving so that effective verticalisation ends at the yarn stage. 1970Daily Tel. 10 Jan. 7/7 He does renounce..that festering sore of serialism, the automatic verticalisation of melodies. 1979Nature 15 Mar. 226/1 The late alkaline rocks in the ring-complexes may be related to verticalisation of the Benioff plane accompanied by a diapiric rise of mantle material. 1984Christian Sci. Monitor 7 Feb. 39/2, I praised Masotti's movement of his necktie from his stomach to his pocket and its slight verticalization. |