hybridize
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- hybridise (UK)
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hybridize (third-person singular simple present hybridizes, present participle hybridizing, simple past and past participle hybridized)
- (transitive) to cross-breed animals or plants to form hybrids
- (transitive) to construct a hybrid word from elements of different languages
- (physics) to combine atomic orbitals mathematically to form hybrid orbitals
- (biochemistry) to combine complementary subunits of multiple biological macromolecules
