Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To render artificial.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To render artificial.

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  • verb transitive To render artificial.

Etymologies

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artificial +‎ -ize

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Examples

  • They argue that grades artificialize the learning process and teach the kids to think in terms of a desired grade instead of in terms of what they might be learning, and that grades also artificialize the nature of the relationship between the teacher and the student, encouraging the student to see the teacher as the dispenser of grades rather than a mentor or interlocutor.

    Gradewise Bruce Schauble 2007

  • They argue that grades artificialize the learning process and teach the kids to think in terms of a desired grade instead of in terms of what they might be learning, and that grades also artificialize the nature of the relationship between the teacher and the student, encouraging the student to see the teacher as the dispenser of grades rather than a mentor or interlocutor.

    Archive 2007-03-01 Bruce Schauble 2007

  • For doesn't philosophy itself work to artificialize the natural, to make strange the everyday?

    Stories from The Sun 2009

  • As long as we computerize just some of the results of human intelligence, as is the chess game, we hardly can call that “artificial”. we artificialize capacities, not the essence, that’s why AI is now baptised General Artificial Intelligence because what we did until now is specific.

    Why Don’t We Have General AI? « Tai-Chi Policy 2008

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