Operationalized vs Began - What's the difference?
operationalized | began |
(operationalize)
To make operational.
(social sciences) To define (a concept) in such a way that it can be practically measured.
* 1956 , Ernest Greenwood, "New Directions in Delinquency Research: A Commentary on a Study by Bernard Lander," Social Service Review , vol. 30, no. 2, p. 152:
*2012 , Adam Zeman, ‘Only Connect’, Literary Review , issue 399:
*:Vision seems ‘childishly simple’ to us but proves to be fiendishly hard to operationalise , precisely because we are so good at it.
(begin)
As verbs the difference between operationalized and began
is that operationalized is (operationalize) while began is (begin).operationalized
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Verb
(head)operationalize
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(operationalization)Alternative forms
* operationaliseVerb
(en-verb)- To operationalize a concept is to identify those variables in terms of which the phenomenon represented by the concept can be accurately observed.