单词 | potentialize |
释义 | potentializev. transitive. To make potential; to give potentiality to; spec. (a) = potentiate v. 1b; (b) to convert into potential energy. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > energy or power of doing work > supply with energy [verb (transitive)] > give potentiality to potentialize1818 the world > existence and causation > existence > reality or real existence or actuality > potentiality > make potential [verb (transitive)] potentialize1818 1818 S. T. Coleridge Notebks. (1973) III. 4456 As Light = the Potential actualized, yet Potential still, so its opposites must be = Actual potentialized, yet still Actual. 1843 Brit. Jrnl. Homœopathy 1 No. 3. 207 Repeated doses, any one of which, had it been sufficiently diluted and potentialized, was quite sufficient to cure all the diseases..in which this remedy was indicated. 1856 P. Fairbairn Prophecy ii. iii. 431 The six highly potentialized—three times repeated (666) is the utmost that could be assigned him for a symbolical indication of his nature—this is the number of his name. 1915 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 1 85 Until erosion began the terrestrial mechanism must be regarded as a heat engine of the irreversible type. It could potentialize energy and do mechanical work, but the cycle was incomplete. 1981 R. Hayman Kafka (1983) xxiii. 280 The compulsion to leave so much work unfinished was partly superstitious: he wanted to stop short of potentializing it. 2003 Reprod. Toxicol. 17 421 While apigenin and kaempferol appeared to have low estrogenic activity, they potentialized the uterotrophic effect of 17β-estradiol in immature rats. Derivatives potentialiˈzation n. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > reality or real existence or actuality > potentiality > [noun] > action of making potential potentialization1853 potentializing1889 1853 Putnam's Monthly Mag. Nov. 472/1 Sir William Hamilton, while..affirming it [sc. the Infinite] in words to be the logical opposite of the finite, makes it in fact the greatest possible potentialization of the finite. 1865 tr. D. F. Strauss New Life Jesus II. ii. lxxix. 273 Neander's attempt to substitute a mere potentialization of the water for vinous properties. 1955 Lancet 19 Mar. 606/2 Intensification (or potentialisation) of the action of hypnotics and analgesics. 1999 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 96 869/1 The CYR61 protein has been shown to promote cell adhesion, migration, and proliferation—probably through the potentialization of platelet-derived growth factor and basic fibroblast growth factor activities. poˈtentialized adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > energy or power of doing work > [adjective] > made potential potentialized1824 the world > existence and causation > existence > reality or real existence or actuality > potentiality > [adjective] > made potential potentialized1824 1824–6 S. T. Coleridge Notebks. (1990) IV. §5162 The polarization of the potentialized Actual into Light and positive Darkness. 1867 Lancet 6 Apr. 447/1 Would not a gallon of Fleming's tincture, duly potentialised, make a very strong aconite liniment of the Atlantic Ocean? 1886 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 131 120 At the extreme configurations of any simple vibration, the energy of the simple movement is entirely potentialized. 1898 Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. 9 289 Minerals which are in a state of strain, and therefore have energy potentialized which is liberated in the process of recrystallization. 2003 Irish News (Nexis) 24 May 42 It [sc. a painting] can be seen as a study in the balance between individual autonomy and collective union, between desolate void and potentialized nothingness. poˈtentializing n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > energy or power of doing work > [noun] > quantity expressed by potential function > quality of being made potential potentializing1889 the world > existence and causation > existence > reality or real existence or actuality > potentiality > [noun] > action of making potential potentialization1853 potentializing1889 1889 Nature 3 Oct. 562/1 With a given metal, there is large potentializing in the first stages of strain, and large dissipation in the final stages. 1951 Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 7 278 The potentializing effect of neoantergan with respect to the action of ocytocin on the guinea pig uterus has been studied quantitatively. 1983 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 80 6540/2 Somatocrinin's potentializing effect on cAMP activation of the protein kinase might result from a covalent reaction. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1818 |
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