visualise

From visual +‎ -ise (a variant of -ize (suffix forming verbs denoting the doing or making of what is denoted by the adjectives or nouns to which it is attached)).

visualise (third-person singular simple present visualises, present participle visualising, simple past and past participle visualised)

1. Non-Oxford British spelling of visualize
   • 1899, F. F. Leighton, “‘In My Mind’s Eye, Horatio’”, in Life and Books, London: T Fisher Unwin , →OCLC, page 13:

     In our own poetry we get from [Geoffrey] Chaucer the first instance of self-analysis and description, the first case of visualising self.

   • 1921 October, Lynden Macassey, “Labour and the League of Nations ”, in Harold Cox, editor, The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal, volume 234, number 478, London: Longmans, Green & Co.; New York, N.Y.: Leonard Scott Publication Company, →OCLC, page 249:

     The humanitarian, frequently ignoring hard reality, visualises one cosmopolitan community where justice and social sympathy measured in terms of some one set of units reign supreme.

   • 1950 September, “Centenary of the Royal Border Bridge”, in The Railway Magazine, London: Tothill Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 637:

     Trains have increased in weight far beyond anything visualised when the bridge was designed, but it has never undergone any major structural alterations, and continues to carry main-line traffic without weight restriction.

   • 1950 October, R. A. Marshall, “Kuala Lumpur, an Important Malayan Railway Centre”, in The Railway Magazine, London: Tothill Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 706:

     Possible developments such as electric or diesel suburban services may be visualised when the town has grown sufficiently to justify them.

   • 2003, International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements, Image Quality in Chest Radiography (ICRU Report; 70), Ashford, Kent: Nuclear Technology Publishing, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 84:

     When small masses are to be detected, it is necessary to visualise as much of the lung as possible with as little structured noise as possible. This is accomplished with high-voltage, wide-latitude, image recording and possibly beam equalisation.

• Homophones: visualisent, visualises

visualise

1. inflection of visualiser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative