Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See externalization, externalize.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun embodying in an outward form.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative spelling of
externalization .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun attributing to outside causes
- noun embodying in an outward form
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Examples
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A typical form of externalisation is when you select and drag an item on an interface and it shows where you can drop it by highlighting areas as you move over them.
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The poor currently do not benefit from the "externalisation" of electricity prices because they do not use enough electricity.
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The colonisation of reality by fictions requires a dialectic of involution and externalisation.
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Or was architecture the externalisation of male function?
Ballardian » Ballardian/Savoy Microfiction competition winners 2010
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The involution to inner space, to scenarios of nerve and blood vessel, forms an alternative ‘conceptualized psychopathology’ (AT 99) of re-externalisation.
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They asked users to solve a reasonably complex puzzle involving moving different coloured balls between two boxes using a small dish, and built two versions of the game program, one of which offered more guidance to the user – involved more externalisation – than the other.
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A typical form of externalisation is when you select and drag an item on an interface and it shows where you can drop it by highlighting areas as you move over them.
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Steps Retread (Fail) "Plot Driven" is how we genre types are supposed to write, meaning, I suppose, that stuff happens in our stories which is not just an externalisation of the protagonist's inner turmoil.
39 Steps Retread (Fail) zornhau 2008
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They asked users to solve a reasonably complex puzzle involving moving different coloured balls between two boxes using a small dish, and built two versions of the game program, one of which offered more guidance to the user – involved more externalisation – than the other.
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Were pyramids really as useless as they seemed or did they form a focus, perhaps a concrete symbol of the first true externalisation of thought?
Burning Brightly 2009
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