0 to think of or represent someone or something as better than that person or thing really is: --
1 to think of or represent someone or something as perfect: --
Scientific theories are typically about idealized or abstract realms, which are uncovered in the process of developing and establishing the theories.
So, we consider idealized horizontally homogeneous incompressible fluids of infinite horizontal extent confined between two rigid horizontal boundaries.
Struggles to maintain the household were more tangible to rural communities than the fight for control of the state idealized by nationalist historians.
To invent is not, then, "to make real"; nor is it to idealize.
We also idealize the geometry by considering only two-dimensional situations.
I do not mean to idealize this institution or to claim that the relationships between merchant and apprentice were always harmonious.
The region boundaries relating to each geometry configuration are idealized using the outermost points of each cluster.
It is idealized in the sense that it does not reflect the constant flux and everincreasing leakage between the two varieties.
