SYMBOLIZING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does symbolizing mean? 

• SYMBOLIZING (noun)
  The noun SYMBOLIZING has 1 sense:

1. the act of representing something with a symbol

  Familiarity information: SYMBOLIZING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SYMBOLIZING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of representing something with a symbol

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

symbolising; symbolizing

Hypernyms ("symbolizing" is a kind of...):

figuration (representing figuratively as by emblem or allegory)

Derivation:

symbolize (express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol)

 Context examples 

A constant symbolizing the ratio of a dissolved substance in a two-phase system.

(Partition Coefficient, NCI Thesaurus)

Ten years later, he led the Soviet part of the Apollo–Soyuz mission symbolizing that the Space Race was over.

(Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov dies at age 85, Wikinews)