materialization

English

Alternative forms

• materialisation

Etymology

From material +‎ -ization and materialize +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

materialization (countable and uncountable, plural materializations)

1. The conversion of something into a physical form.
   • 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:

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

   • 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.

Derived terms

• dematerialization

Translations

conversion of something into a physical form

Catalan: materialització f German: Materialisation (de) f, Verkörperung (de) f Korean: 구체화 (ko) (guchehwa) Spanish: materialización f Swedish: materialisering c, materialisation c Volapük: stöfikam

conversion of energy into mass

German: Materialisation (de) f