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Hybridize

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To form a mixture of any kind.

    "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. 2
    breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties wordnet
  3. 3
    To cross-breed animals or plants to form hybrids. transitive
  4. 4
    To produce hybrid offspring; to interbreed. intransitive
  5. 5
    To construct a hybrid word from elements of different languages. transitive
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  1. 6
    To combine atomic orbitals mathematically to form hybrid orbitals.
  2. 7
    To combine complementary subunits of multiple biological macromolecules.

Etymology

From hybrid + -ize.

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