visualize

5 definitions • 10 examples

to form a picture of someone or something in your mind:

I was so surprised when he turned up - I'd visualized someone much older.

The biggest challenge to building this place was visualizing what it would look like.

can visualize Sometimes you can visualize what you want to do but you just can't do it.

to form a picture in your mind of something you want to achieve, in the belief that doing so will make it more likely to happen:

To enhance your performance, try to visualize the target.

visualize yourself Write down your goals and visualize yourself achieving them.

to create an image that represents information in a way that makes it easier to understand:

visualize data Many powerful tools have been developed to visualize data.

I made this graph to visualize the results.

to make something, especially something inside the body, able to be seen:

An echocardiogram can accurately visualize the motion of the heart's walls.

Enzyme activity was visualized as a yellowish staining on a green background.

to imagine or remember someone or something by forming a picture in your mind:

I was so surprised when I saw him – I’d visualized someone much older.