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Materialization is the name of several things:
- Materialization (parapsychology), a concept, in parapsychology, is the creation or appearance of matter from unknown sources
- In science fiction, materialization is an action associated with a matter transport system.
- In computing, it is sometimes used as a synonym for instantiation, which itself has several concrete meanings.
- In relational databases, it can refer to creating materialized views.