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Materialization

Materialization may refer to:

Materialization (parapsychology), a concept in parapsychology, is the creation or appearance of matter from unknown sources
In science fiction, materialization is an action associated with several plot devices involving energy to matter conversion such as:
- teleportation (in which two theorized stages are de-materialization and re-materialization), or
- Replicator (Star Trek), said to be able to materialize food etc.,
- the holodeck from the same series, which can materialize a fantasy partner.
In computing, it is sometimes used as a synonym for instantiation, which itself has several concrete meanings.
- In relational databases, it can refer to creating materialized views
- Or more generally, any form of storing the results of a precomputation
- A specific design pattern in object-oriented programming.
The process of becoming more materialist
The process of creating an embodiment of an idea, for example creating a prototype