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materialize
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materialize (Amer.)
v.
realize; appear suddenly; become reality, become real; cause to appear, produce; regard as matter (also materialise)
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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
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materialize
Verb
1. come into being; become reality; "Her dream really materialized"
(synonym) happen, materialise
(antonym) dematerialize, dematerialise
(hypernym) happen, hap, go on, pass off, occur, pass, fall out, come about, take place
(hyponym) appear, come out
(derivation) materialization, materialisation
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materializar
v.
materialize, reify
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materialize (Amer.)
v.
uskutečnit se; splnit se
