Definition of "materialize"

materialize

verb
third-person singular simple present materializes, present participle materializing, simple past and past participle materialized
1. (transitive) To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
2. (intransitive) To take physical form, to appear seemingly from nowhere.
  Quotations
  a spirit form, temporarily materialized, and undistinguishable from a human being in the flesh, has come forth in the light […]
  1875, Epes Sargent, The Proof Palpable of Immortality
  Don’t you find, that things fail to materialize? Nothing materializes! Everything withers in the bud.
  1920, D.H. Lawrence, chapter 1, in Women in Love
3. (transitive) To regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or principles which are appropriate to matter.
4. (transitive, databases) To perform materialization; to save the results of a database query as a temporary table or materialized view.