Definition of "hybridize"

hybridize

/ˈhaɪ.bɹɪd.aɪz/

verb
third-person singular simple present hybridizes, present participle hybridizing, simple past and past participle hybridized
1. To form a mixture of any kind.
  Quotations
  Brainstorming methods other than the KJ technique will be mentioned later, but to come up with new ideas, it is easier to merge different ideas, or in other words, to cross-fertilize or hybridize ideas and improve upon them.
  2008, Akira Ishikawa, Creative Marketing for New Product and New Business Development
2. (transitive) To cross-breed animals or plants to form hybrids.
3. (intransitive) To produce hybrid offspring; to interbreed.
4. (transitive) To construct a hybrid word from elements of different languages.
5. (physics) To combine atomic orbitals mathematically to form hybrid orbitals.
6. (biochemistry) To combine complementary subunits of multiple biological macromolecules.