materialize

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Synonyms: materialise, maternalize, materialism, materialized, materiality, materialist, paternalize, dematerialize, materializes, materializer, rematerialize

Antonyms: materialise, maternalize, materialism, materialized, materiality, materialist, paternalize, dematerialize, materializes, materializer, rematerialize

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Verb

1. {{lb|en|transitive}} To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
2. {{lb|en|intransitive}} To take physical form, to appear seemingly from nowhere.
3. {{lb|en|intransitive}} To become real (of a plan, idea, etc.); to [[come to fruition]].
4. {{lb|en|transitive}} To regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or principles which are appropriate to matter.
5. {{lb|en|transitive|databases}} To perform [[materialization]]; to save the results of a database [[query]] as a temporary [[table]] or {{w|materialized view}}.

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