Hypertext Webster Gateway: "materialization"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Materialization \Ma*te`ri*al*i*za"tion\, n.
The act of materializing, or the state of being materialized.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
materialization
n 1: an appearance in bodily form (as of a ghost) [syn: {materialisation}]
2: something that comes into existence as a result;
"industrialism prepared the way for acceptance of the
French Revolution's various socialistic offspring"; "this
skyscraper is the solid materialization of his efforts"
[syn: {offspring}, {materialisation}]
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