virtualizev.
/ˈvəːtʃʊəlʌɪz/, /ˈvəːtʃ(ᵿ)lʌɪz/, /ˈvəːtjʊəlʌɪz/, /ˈvəːtjᵿlʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈvərtʃ(əw)əˌlaɪz/ 1. transitive. Chiefly Philosophy. To give virtual existence to (an intangible or abstract idea, concept, etc.) by perceiving it as, or demonstrating it to be, manifested or present in a real object, action, etc., within the world.
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1838 Christian Lady's Mag. July 29 One cannot avoid observing, in pursuing this train of thought, how skilfully this propensity of man, to sensualize and virtualize the Deity, has been seized on, and employed by Papal Rome.
1873 J. P. Lacroix tr. A. Wuttke Christian Ethics II. §120. 239 Man virtualizes [Ger. bekundet] his god-likeness primarily in this, that he glorifies God even in his body as the temple of the Holy Ghost.., and that he presents this body to God as a living, holy, and well-pleasing sacrifice.
1901 A. E. Waite Life of Louis Claude de Saint Martin vii. iii. 400 By this we may understand not only the origin of evil, but also that it is not a hypothetical power, since we all virtualise it at almost every moment of our existence.
1989 L. E. Hazelrigg Claims of Knowl. i. 25 The prevailing theory and practice of knowledge have been built from the ossified relics of a number of humanly created distinctions that have been virtualized in the forgetfulness of reification.
2003 S. Critchley & T. Mooney in R. Kearney Continental Philos. in 20th Cent. (new ed.) xiii. 452 It is only writing that allows the discovery to be transmitted from generation to generation, thus giving it a history... Writing is an autonomous field that can virtualize a discovery.
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a. transitive. Computing. To create a virtual version of (a computing resource or facility). Cf. virtual adj. 9a.
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1973 L. I. Dickman in Proc. Workshop on Virtual Computer Syst. 197 (heading) Extensions for virtualizing I/O.
1980 B. D. Shriver et al. in J. Belzer et al. Encycl. Computer Sci. & Technol. XIV. 20 To be able to efficiently virtualize a dual state third generation architecture.
1993 M. Dorigo & V. Maniezzo in J. Stender Parallel Genetic Algorithms 38 When there are more data elements than processors, the system can virtualize them by dividing up the memory associated to each physical processor.
2012 android-developers.blogspot.co.uk (Nexis) 9 Apr. Our emulator virtualizes a complete device: hardware, kernel, low-level system libraries, and app framework.
b. transitive. To convert to a computerized or digitized form; to make a computer-generated simulation of; to conduct using computer technology rather than more traditional means. Cf. virtual adj. 9b.
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society > computing and information technology > [verb (transitive)]
computerize1960
virtualize1990
1990 InfoWorld 16 Apr. 40/4 Kanji Windows, from Microsoft Japan, completely virtualizes the 6,500-character Japanese alphabet.
1998 K. Eshun More Brilliant than Sun a176 You've literally captured the motion of a human; now you can proceed to virtualize it.
2000 Independent (Nexis) 26 Jan. (Business section) 4 The Internet is virtualising industry.
2006 Blueprint July 45/3 That's the important thing. People hang out together, and don't virtualise themselves.
Derivatives
ˌvirtualiˈzation n.
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1873 J. P. Lacroix tr. A. Wuttke Christian Ethics I. iii. 111 It [sc. friendship] appears not so much as duty as rather as a virtualization of the striving after happiness.
1973 L. I. Dickman in Proc. Workshop on Virtual Computer Syst. 198 Since small machine systems have simple I/O architectures and support simple devices, such virtualization would be easy to implement.
2005 Sunday Times (Nexis) 16 Oct. This ‘virtualisation’ of call centres offers potentially large savings due to better call-handling.
ˈvirtuaˌlized adj.
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1873 J. P. Lacroix tr. A. Wuttke Christian Ethics II. vi. i. 284 The consciousness of this double harmony produces loving blessedness only when it rests on the consciousness of a morally virtualized filial relation to God.
1973 E. G. Mallach in Proc. Workshop on Virtual Computer Syst. 120 The physical address space of the emulated or virtualized machine.
2006 Soldiers Feb. (Hot Topics Suppl.) 2/1 Make it easier for Soldiers to continue their educations through implementation of more virtualized education operations.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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