materialization - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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• materialisation

From material +‎ -ization and materialize +‎ -ation.

Rhymes: -eɪʃən

materialization (countable and uncountable, plural materializations)

1. The conversion of something into a physical form.
   • 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 187:

     "Steamed fish and chicken and vegetable soup and even mushrooms are considered cooling foods, edible materializations of the yang, the pure primal air. The yin, or earth element, inheres in fried dishes and especially in shark's fin soup. Am I right, Mr Lee?"

   • 2015, Gabriele Brandstetter, Poetics of Dance, page 291:

     The Triadic Ballet was an antiballet: Schlemmer's model of theater was not influenced by the physical techniques and spatial perspective of ballet, but by the materialization of abstract principles of space and movement in the total mask of the costume.

2. (physics) The conversion of energy into mass.
3. (databases) The creation of a temporary table containing the results of a database query.