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1. …になること。語句について、その語句の状態になることを示す。さらに、その状態となるサ変動詞を構成する。
2. …と化合すること。酸化数が負であるほうに用いる。
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① ある人やものが持っている特徴が、2時点を比較したときに、同一の形状をなしていないこと。② 格によって語形を変えること。格変化。③ 立合いで、相手と正面からぶつからず右または左によけること。注文。
① 強くすること。
① 人間がその歴史において形成してきた慣習、営みの総称。カルチャー。場合により哲学・芸術・学問・信仰など人間の精神的営みと、その成果を指す。② 他の語彙の前に付いて、ハイカラ・便利・新式などの意を表す。 文明開化。
disabling; invalidation; nullification; vitiation
petrifaction; petrification; mineralization; mineralisation; lithification; fossilization
① 異なる思想などを同じにしたり、させたりすること。② 知識などを自分のものにすること。③ 音変化で、ある音が隣接する音の影響を受けて、同じ音または一部共通する音に変わること。④ 生物がエネルギーを失う際に起こす反応⑤ 心理学で、環境を自分の中に取り入れること⑥ 社会学で、個人や集団が他の個人や集団の感情などを習得することで経験などを共有すること。⑦ マグマが、岩石などを取り込んで一つの物質に変化させること
① 物質が反応する機能が高まること。また、高めること。賦活化。② 社会・組織などの活動が活発になること。また、活発にすること。
substantiation; materialization; materialisation; (specific to object language classes) instantiation
embodiment; realization; materialization
① 組織・体制などの力が弱くなること。
① 物質の性質や反応を研究する自然科学の一分野。② 1 について教える高等学校の理科の科目。
unification; integration
fossil; petrifaction; petrification; fossilization
justification; warrant
① 硬くなること。② 強硬な意見・態度になること。③ 相場が上がり気味になること。
① 岩石が、雨・風・微生物に晒されて、徐々に破壊されていくこと。② ある出来事についての記憶や感情が、時を経るごとに弱まって、消えていくこと。特に戦争やテロなど悲惨な事件に対して用いられる。③ 他者を良い方向に教え導くこと。風教。
hanky-panky; juggling; cheating; deception; smoke and mirrors
beautification; glorification
① 影響を与えて考えや行動を変化させること。
turning a comic, novel, etc. into an animated movie or TV series; making an animated version
swelling; enlargement
① ある状態から別の状態に変わること。② 蔗糖が加水分解され、果糖と葡萄糖になること。
making practical; making useful; implementing
intensification; aggravation
mechanization; mechanisation; computerization
optimization; optimisation
① 年が経つにつれ、働きが衰えること。
aging; wearing out; deterioration
visualization (data, results, etc.); visualisation; making something visible (that was previously unseen)
① それまで言葉による表現・説明がされて来なかったもの、あるいはできなかったものを、言葉で表現すること。
calming down; quieting down
① 人間でないものを人間に見立てて表現すること。
softening; softening (of attitude); mollification; weakening (of the market); blanching (e.g. of vegetables; by depriving of light)
initialization; initialisation; formatting; resetting
emergence (of insects); eclosion; growing wings
① 単純・等質なものが複雑・異質なものに分かれること。② 特殊化していない細胞や組織などの形態や機能が変化し、特殊化したものになること。
making efficient; optimization
miniaturization; miniaturisation; downsizing
① 情報を平文から暗号文に変換すること。
increase in activity; activation
① 液体が気体になること。
① 社会を近代的な状態に移行すること。
① 物質が酸素と結びついて酸化物を与える化学反応。② 化学種が電子を失う化学反応。あるいは、酸化数が増える化学反応。
deification; apotheosis; wondrous change; great moral influence
quantification; expressing in numerical form; conversion to numerical form
making (book, etc.) into film; making a screen version; adapting for the screen
commercialization (e.g. product); commodification
regularization; regularisation; getting up speed; proceeding at full tilt
① 膿が生じること。膿むこと。
coming to a head; coming to the surface; becoming an issue; breaking
generalization; generalisation; popularization; to generalize; to generalise; to popularize
① 抽象的な事柄をはっきりした形として表すこと。
appropriation; misappropriation; making one's own
organization; organisation; systematization; systematisation
① 組織の体制などが、民主的になること。ひとりが強い権限を持つ体制から、多くの人が平等に権限を持てるようにすること。
① 物事を単純にすること。
realization; realisation
novelizing; novelising; adapting a movie, game, etc. into a book
becoming a mere shell; becoming a dead letter; losing (one's) substance; being reduced to a formality
① 純粋なものにすること。② 単純化。
① 人を教え導くこと。
digitization; digitalization
subdivision; segmentation; fractionalization; fragmentation
① 女性一人が生涯に出産する子供の人数が減ったことに伴い、国の総人口に対する割合が少なくなること。
being actualized; becoming apparent; becoming tangible; surfacing
growth; metamorphosis
rationalization; rationalisation; rationalize; rationalise
differentiation
stabilization; stabilisation
different culture; foreign culture
① 正常な状態に戻ること。また、戻すこと。
warming; global warming
calming down; quieting down
increase in speed, acceleration
① 色色な様式・種類に分かれること。
systematization; systematisation; organization; organisation
becoming dull; slowing down
becoming more serious or severe; aggravation; intensification
stipulation; stating clearly; documenting in writing; stating explicitly
liquefaction; liquefy
visualization; visualisation
increasing in size
imperial influence; assimilation of new territory
identification (with)
benighted lands outside of imperial influence
① 固体や気体が液体に変化すること。
electronization; digitization; computerization
male-to-female gender swap (in fan art and fan fiction)
mummification
① 逃れる見通しのつかない状態になること。
fortifying; fortification
going feral (of a species); reverting to wild; escape
① 化学を研究する科学者。
unification; centralization; integration; drawing things together; working out a common policy; consolidation
popularization; popularisation
turning (a comic, novel, etc.) into a serialized TV-show; dramatization
digitization
depopulation; declining population
clarification; definition
live-action adaptation (of a cartoon or animated movie)
idealization; idealisation
① 植生に覆われた土地が植物の育たない土地になってゆく現象。
maximization; maximisation
population ageing (aging)
externalization
changing into cash; encashment; cashing
publish in paperback
industrialization; industrialisation; establishing a production system; putting something into production
making into a product
feminization; feminisation
colonization; colonisation
normalization (of a social problem, of a situation, etc.)
modelling (e.g. a system, etc.)
liberalization; liberalisation; freeing
① 二種類以上の元素が化学反応により結合し、新しい物質を生じること。
① 交通や情報などによって世界が一体化すること。
averaging; levelling (off); equalization; standardization; balance
aggravation (of an illness); exacerbation; worsening
radicalization; radicalisation; intensification; aggravation; sharpening (e.g. of an image); narrowing (of a peak)
homogenization; homogenisation
making obligatory; making compulsory
vitrification
legalization; legalisation
domestication
computerization; computerisation
Japanization; Japanisation
urbanization; urbanisation
minimization; minimisation
getting stuck in a rut; becoming stereotyped
bleaching; whitening; chlorosis; albinism
① 体型を小さくすること。② 実態よりも小さく見せること。本質的でない部分を強調して、些末にすること。
becoming cancerous; canceration
destabilization; destabilisation
① 一般大衆に分かりやすくすること。
internationalization; internationalisation; i18n (in IT)
systematisation; systematization
standardization; standardisation
sanctification; consecration
caricaturing; turning a movie, novel, etc. into a manga; making a comic version of something
novelizing; novelising
privatization; privatisation
restoration; return to health
universalization
becoming aware (of); becoming conscious (of); realization; conscientization; (formation of) critical consciousness
① 無駄を省いて簡単にすること。
① 思考、議論などに便利なように、物事や論点を整理すること。抽象化すること。
turning a movie, comic, etc. into a (computer) game; gamification
obsolescence; becoming obsolete (of a product, etc.)
① 私有財産や公有財産を国家のものにすること。
① 体制、政策、方針などが中身のない形式だけのものになること。② 企業が生産を海外に移すことにより、国内の産業や経済が低下すること。③ 人が郊外に移ることにより、都心部の人口が減少すること。
symbolization; coding; encoding
① 卵が孵ること。
internalization
standardization; standardisation; normalization (e.g. in maths)
specialization; specialisation
systematic implementation; institutionalization (e.g. way, method)
quantization; quantisation; quantizing
standardization; manualization; compiling into a manual; formalization
becoming chronic
① 様式や方式が一つに定まること。② 論理が一貫するような厳密な言葉遣いで表現すること。③ 記号や数式で表現すること。
leveling; levelling; equalization; alleviation (e.g. of unemployment); harmonization
full automation; becoming unmanned; making (something) unmanned
bipolarization; bipolarisation
increase in sophistication; enhancement of functionality; increase in speed; upgrading
turning into a brand; branding
masculinization; virilization
moving into the black; becoming profitable
labor saving; labour saving
degradation; downfall
making (information) into a database; creating a database (from information); entering into a database
structuralization
simplification
animalization; animalisation
socialization; socialisation
increase in the average age of marriage
encoding; coding
industrialization; industrialisation; commercialization
unification; centralization; centralisation
① 化学繊維の略。
① 広大なる化導。大なる徳化。徳を以て大いに導き、人心をよき方向にかえること。
voltinism
desalination; desalinization; desalting
homogenization (e.g. milk)
improvement; amelioration
ionization; ionisation
impersonation; personification
standardization; uniformalization
standardization; standardisation
stylization; to stylize; to conventionalize
objectivization; viewing objectively
parallelization
make an issue or problem of something; something becoming a problem or issue
adopting (novel, etc.) for the theatre (theater)
Japanese localization
individualization; individualisation
centralization of power; centralisation of power
idolization; idolisation
incorporation; conversion to a corporation; privatization (of a previously public body)
commercialization; commercialisation
monetization; monetizing
turning into a slum; becoming run-down; slumism; slumification
becoming part of the standard inventory (of a product); becoming popular
① 教え感化すること。② 不純なものを取り除き純粋にすること。
stratification; hierarchization; layering; tiering
conversion to sugar; saccharification
popularization; popularisation
① ヨーロッパ風にすること。② ヨーロッパ風、アメリカ風にすること。「欧化主義、欧化政策」
becoming cancerous; canceration
① システムの構造や業務の運用などの主に無形のものについて、外部の関係者・第三者などから、内容を把握できるようにすること。
diversification
many changes
industrialization; industrialisation
toughening the law; making the law stricter
conservative swing; drift to the right; rightward trend
becoming cancerous; canceration
modularization
classifying in patterns; typification
securitization; securitisation
westernization; westernisation
① 音変化で、ある音が隣接する音の影響を受けて、別の音に変わること。② 生物がエネルギーを得る際に起こす反応③ 心理学で、違いの大きい2つのものを近づけると違いがさらに際立つこと④ ロシアフォルマリズムで、日常を異質なものに変化させること⑤ 異化効果
virtualization; virtualisation
encoding; codification
secularization; secularisation; popularization; popularisation
putting online (services, administrative functions, etc.); going online; digitalization; digitization
female-to-male gender swap (in fan art and fan fiction)
duplication; redundancy
duplication; to make redundant
legislating; legislation; passage of a bill into law
becoming the objective; setting as a goal
slimming down; scaling back; thinning; streamlining; retrenchment
① 時代遅れになった物事を現代に相応しいものに変えること。
ideation; process of forming and relating ideas; to ideate
nullification; annihilation
potassium cyanide
smoothing (e.g. numbers)
equalization; equalisation
① ヨーロッパやアメリカのようにすること。
company split-up; spinning off of a separate company
manpower reduction; personnel saving
nationalization; nationalisation
nominalization
decryption; decipherment; decoding
computerization; computerisation
robotization; robotizing; automation
simplification; unification
decentralization
making (something) free of charge; dispensing with fees
transition to domestic production; import substitution
differentiation
dramatization; dramatisation
age lowering; reduction in age
becoming a permanent resident; becoming permanently settled; domiciliation
computerization; computerisation
encapsulation
commercialization; commercialisation
mechanization; mechanisation
becoming (like) an old man (in one's manner); turning into an old geezer
militarization; militarisation
hydration
(lit.) doughnut phenomenon; combination of urban sprawl and inner-city decay
commercialization; commercialisation
recurrence relation; recurrence formula
verbification; verbing
making something freely available (information, access to a competition, etc.)
Galapagosization; phenomenon of companies becoming overly specialized in developing products for the domestic market
banning (e.g. an organization); making something illegal
applied chemistry; adaptation
changing from free to paid (e.g. a service); starting to charge
quantification (logic)
communization; communisation
fluoridation
commoditization; commodification
poetization
westernization; westernisation
influencing people by one's virtue
vocalization; vocalisation; voicing
making (something) free of charge; dispensing with fees
localisation; localization; L10n (in IT)
sterilization
microminiaturization; micro-miniaturization
bureaucratization; bureaucratisation
acclimatization; naturalization; acclimation
burying; underground installation (cables, etc.)
dividing into blocks; becoming a bloc; forming a bloc
objectification
customization; customisation
normalization (e.g. in floating-point representation system); normalisation; standardization; standardisation
incorporation; assimilation; internalization; making part of oneself
keratinization; cornification
becoming (like) an old man (in one's manner); turning into an old geezer
sampling (e.g. in signal processing)
synchronization
simplification; simplifying
suburbanization
militarization; militarisation
refinement; elaboration
shift away from manufacturing to an information and service-based economy; softening; release (e.g. of a movie) on home video (e.g. DVD, BD, VHS)
methylation
chemical seasoning
demutualization; becoming incorporated
assimilation; incorporation
chemical engineering
bromination
putting in order; systemize; systemise
layering; stratification; sheafification
rationalization (modifying part of an irrational expression, esp. denominators, to exclude roots or irrational numbers)
multilingualization; multilingualisation; localization; localisation
decentralization (of power); decentralisation
electrification (esp. in the auto industry)
writing into law; codification; enacting
acetylation
hydrogenation
lignification
merchant class culture that flourished in Edo during the Bunka-Bunsei period
extreme population aging (ageing)
putting into print; setting in type; printing; publishing
simplification
gelling agent; gellatinizing agent; setting agent; gellant
modelling; modeling
gelatinization
caramelization; caramelisation
iodization; iodisation
staging a story; filming a story
(speed) optimization
iconization; minimization
instantiation (in object-oriented programming)
vacuolation; vacuolization
integration, e.g. of electronic components into integrated circuits
organizational inertia; organisational inertia
leftward shift; liberal trend
urbanization control area; urban control area
plotting (of maps); mapping; compilation
rationalization (modifying part of an irrational expression, esp. denominators, to exclude roots or irrational numbers)
becoming (like) an old man (in one's manner); turning into an old geezer
Americanization; Americanisation
objectification; objectifying
McDonaldization (institutions in society becoming standardized and focused on efficiency and predictability)
dollarization
Americanization
individualization (of a task or job; as opposed to standardization); personalization
polarization; polarisation; lining up with
increase in the level of academic achievement; popularisation of higher education
damping; muffling; noise-reduction
personalization; personalisation; product stopping being a luxury item
halogenation
diagonalisation; diagonalization
canonization (in a textual sense)
becoming more difficult (e.g. exam); increasing difficulty
tendency to not get married; declining marriage rate
ossification
giving guidance; explaining
cyclization; cyclisation
recycling; resource recovery
① 悪くなること。
hanky-panky; juggling; cheating; deception; smoke and mirrors
cell encapsulation; conversion into cells
thicken; concentrate
dwarfing; stunting
decryption; decipherment; decoding
silicification
adapting for TV; television adaptation
commoditization; commodification
increase in the average age of childbirth
objectification; objectifying
objectification; objectifying
caramelization; caramelisation
nitration
Balkanization
esterification
rasterization
① 広い範囲に共通して適用できるようにすること。一般化。普遍化。
standardization; standardisation
time division multiplexing; TDM
devoicing; unvoicing
transformation of the population of Japan into idiots (because of television)
normalization; offering people with disabilities the same conditions as other people
nonassimilation
benevolent rule of a gracious sovereign
topicalization
demythologization; demythicization
shrinking family (size)
change toward a borderless world; development of a borderless world
vocalization; vocalisation
transubstantiation
depalatalization (e.g. dropping small kana in borrowing foreign words into Japanese); depalatalisation
rendering plant for livestock carcasses
sustained virological response; SVR
isomerization; isomerisation
gelatinization; gelatinisation
changing something to full remote control
sulfonation
racemization; racemisation
potassium ferricyanide (C6FeK3N6)
digitization; digitisation; digital transformation; modernizing (society, etc.) with the use of IT
categorization
diazotization
Disneyfication
polyvinylidene fluoride; polyvinylidene difluoride; PVDF
glocalization
Westernization of food; Westernization of dietary habits
subcategorization; subcategorisation
moving to a market-oriented economy; market-oriented economic reform
phosphine; phosphane; diphosphine; diphosphane; solid hydrogen phosphides (a yellow powder)
hydrogen embrittlement
(high) tariff protection; tariff jumping
ortho-normalization; ortho-normalisation
multipolarization; multipolarisation
motorization; motorisation
subnormal number; denormal number; denormalized number
regularisation; regularization
chromic anhydride (CrO3)
enlargement; expansion
phosphine; phosphane; diphosphine; diphosphane; solid hydrogen phosphides (a yellow powder)
high capacity; high load capacity; high load carrying capacity
high capacity; high load capacity; high load carrying capacity
romanisation; romanization; transcribing into the Latin script
fasciation
equalization
encryption; coding; password
contextualization
① 「簡体字」の異称。
normalization; normalisation
earthquake proofing
normalization; normalisation
stock conversion; conversion to stock
denuclearization; denuclearisation
(nuclear fuel) enrichment
area zoned for urbanization (urbanisation)
adding a penalty to a crime (e.g. fines, prison); penalizing a crime
sulfation; sulphation
one of the 72 climates (from the 11th of the second lunar month until the 15th)
time when moles transform into quails (second climate of the third month)
phonetic change; change in sound; shift in sound; sound change
striped stem borer (Chilo suppressalis)
yellow stem borer (species of moth, Scirpophaga incertulas)
Examples (3 in total)
The Romans tried to civilize the ancient Britons.
Our chief concern should be the aging of society.
Should the Suez and Panama Canals be internationalized?