punctualize
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To render as, or turn into, a point; (specifically, sociology) to consider a conceptual or social network as a single point-like entity or “black box”.
Example Sentences
- "One of the complaints sometimes made concerning phenomenology is that it seems to substantialize the self, that it makes the ego into a kind of fixed point that escapes its own history […] But phenomenology does not punctualize the self […]"
- "Certainly, some networks are easier to punctualize than others. They are network packages, routines, taken for granted."
- "MSNBC.com in 2010 was a quintessentially postmodern organization […] We can speak of its needs, its managerial decisions, and the systems it builds—we can punctualize it, to use the ANT term […] but in doing so, we must ourselves be reflexive about the fact that we are ultimately employing a construction."
- "The black box metaphor in actor-network theory was never meant to be used to describe a stable state of affairs, but to highlight the human and social tendency to punctualize networks of relations in black boxes."
- "Among indices of the first type, we find not only adverbs like hier ‘yesterday’, but also a variety of other expressions that serve to punctualize or indicate a specific time."
- "Their distribution is complementary insofar as preverbs mark the punctuality of accomplishments (and some achievements), whereas the doni suffix punctualizes activities and states."
Etymology
From punctual + -ize.