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materialize

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

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Etymology

From material + -ize.

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