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tropicalize

[′träp·ə·kə‚līz]
(engineering)
To prepare electronic equipment for use in a tropical climate by applying a coating that resists moisture and fungi.
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This attempt is framed by the modalities of the "travelling gaze" and "tropicalization." The former traces the representation of Indian landscapes, primarily by focusing on scientific (botanical) attempts to render the environment of the subcontinent comprehensible to British sensibilities.
Extra-basic Adaptation of projects and specifications due to materials, production conditions or characteristics of the local market (tropicalization).
It is also noteworthy that there are arguments in the literature pointing to the need of "tropicalization" of existing International Business theories, so as to make them capable of explaining a set of new phenomena that are taking place in emerging markets (or in developing nations, these terms being used interchangeably in this paper).
Overfishing, tropicalization of fish stocks, uncertainty & ecosystem management: resharpening Ockham's razor.
This nationalist response to Walker's transnational stimulus reveals an effect of the cultural contact between Anglo and Latin America that exceeds the framework suggested by the process of "tropicalization," as that term has been defined and discussed by Frances R.