Operationalized vs Operationalize - What's the difference?
operationalized | operationalize |
(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.
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.
As verbs the difference between operationalized and operationalize
is that operationalized is (operationalize) while operationalize is to make operational.operationalized
English
Verb
(head)operationalize
English
(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.
Derived terms
* operationalizability * operationalizable * operationalizationoperationalize
English
(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.