reification
n. 具体化, 物化
发音
US
/ˌɹeɪəfəˈkeɪʃən/
词形变化
reifications
复数
reifications
释义与例句
n.
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1.
The consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living.
具象化
可数 不可数 -
2.
The consideration of a human being as an impersonal object.
可数 不可数 -
3.
A process that makes a computable/addressable object out of a non-computable/addressable one; or a concrete class out of a generic one.
可数 不可数 计算机 工程 数学 -
4.
The transformation of a natural-language statement into a form in which its actions and events are quantifiable variables.
可数 不可数 语言学
词汇关系
词源
First attested around 1846; a macaronic calque of German Verdinglichung, using -ification (“making”) for ver- + -lich + -ung, and Latin rēs (“thing”) for Ding (“thing”)
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