lingualization

English

Etymology

From lingualize +‎ -ation.

Noun

lingualization (countable and uncountable, plural lingualizations)

1. The act of representing something as a text in some language.
2. The ability to represent something as text.
   • 1997, Pondicherry Institute of Linguistics and Culture, [2]

     In the process of lingualization the child internalizes the system of language values and norms […]

3. (phonetics) The process of a sound becoming lingual.
4. (orthodontics) The procedure of moving teeth towards the tongue side of the arch.
   • 2005, Paolo Ronchi, Orthodontic-surgical treatment of dentofacial anomalies: an integrated esthetic-functional approach‎^[3]:

     As already stated, there is a natural mechanism in most Class III cases that compensates for the sagittal skeletal discrepancy, so that during growth a lingualization of the mandibular incisors develops together with a vestibularization […]