materialization

plural materializations · alternative materialisation

1. countableuncountableThe conversion of something into a physical form.

   "But I went under nicely and I am glad there were some fine materializations."

   1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019

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   "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?"

   1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 187

   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.

   2015, Gabriele Brandstetter, Poetics of Dance, page 291

2. countableuncountablenatural sciencesThe conversion of energy into mass.
3. countableuncountablecomputingThe creation of a temporary table containing the results of a database query.