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