How to say "visualize" in Japanese

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  • nounA loanword for rendering information in graphic form, as when data is turned into charts or images in technical or business settings. Less common, and seldom the word for picturing something in your mind.
  • 思い浮かべるおもいうかべるCommon
    ichidan verb, transitive verbThe common word for the mental sense of visualize: forming a picture in your mind. Use it when you picture a scene, a face, or how something in the future might look.
    彼かれはその詩しを読よんでアルカデイアを心こころの中なかに思い浮おもいうかべた。↗
    He conjured up Arcadia reading the poem.

Use 「思い浮かべる」 for the mental sense of visualize—picturing something in your mind—and 「ビジュアライズ」, a less common loanword, for rendering data or information in graphic form.

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