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visualiser

to visualise, to picture

verb vee-zoo-ah-lee-ZEH Rare
Mind & Emotions Mental States

Also means

to display (data, an image)

Usage Note

Visualiser covers both the mental act of forming a picture in the mind (je n'arrive pas à visualiser la scène — I can't picture the scene) and the technical sense of rendering data or images on a screen (visualiser des données — to display data). The related noun is visualisation, used widely in tech and data science.

Examples

"Il est difficile de visualiser cet espace sans plan."

Natural Translation

It is difficult to picture this space without a plan.

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