hybridize

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English

Alternative forms

Etymology

hybrid +‎ -ize

Pronunciation

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Verb

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  1. To form a mixture of any kind.
    • 2008, Akira Ishikawa, Creative Marketing for New Product and New Business Development:
      Brainstorming methods other than the KJ technique will be mentioned later, but to come up with new ideas, it is easier to merge different ideas, or in other words, to cross-fertilize or hybridize ideas and improve upon them.
  2. (transitive) To cross-breed animals or plants to form hybrids.
  3. (intransitive) To produce hybrid offspring; to interbreed.
  4. (transitive) To construct a hybrid word from elements of different languages.
  5. (physics) To combine atomic orbitals mathematically to form hybrid orbitals.
  6. (biochemistry) To combine complementary subunits of multiple biological macromolecules.

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