Materialization

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 several plot devices involving matter manipulation such as:
- teleportation, or
- replicators
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.
- Or more generally, any form of storing the results of a precomputation.

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