punctualize

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To render as, or turn into, a point; (specifically, sociology) to consider a conceptual or social network as a single point-like entity or “black box”.
    — One of the complaints sometimes made concerning phenomenology is that it seems to substantialize the self, that it makes the ego into a kind of fixed point that escapes its own history […] But phenomenology does not punctualize the self […]
  2. To express an action as happening at a specific moment.
    — Among indices of the first type, we find not only adverbs like hier ‘yesterday’, but also a variety of other expressions that serve to punctualize or indicate a specific time.

词形变化

punctualizes present,singular,third-person punctualizing participle,present punctualized participle,past punctualized past punctualise alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
punctualization

词源

From punctual + -ize.
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