materialization
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7.3
- noun
- /ˌmɛtəˌriəlɪˈzeɪʃən/
- Specialized
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materialización
- During the conference, the speaker discussed the materialization of complex data sets into user-friendly formats.
Examples
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For the materialization of accounting reports, knowledge of the relationship between accounting reporting items and the actual data is required.
Academic text (2000) -
The tangent materialization is once more summarized here and this is what we need to use in the updated Lagrangian formulation.
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The crosshatched conceptual structure in the middle corresponds with the enterprise schema in Figure 2 and is used to assist both the design process and the conclusion materialization process.
Academic text (2000) -
Semantic interoperability would facilitate the use of transaction data in both accounting applications, such as claim materialization, and non-accounting applications, such as customer relationship management and supply chain coordination.
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On the other hand, the No Movies' gestures toward narrative and spectacularization, and their amalgamation of theater and painting, invoke the movies proper, even though their only photographic materialization is the single-frame slide.
Academic text (1999) -
The quick materialization of the cached query result significantly improved the application's response time.
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Effective materialization of the data helps businesses retrieve important insights more efficiently.
Antonyms
How Persistent
- Specialized
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7.3
- Specialized
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4.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
materialization = materialize (semi-transparent) = material + ize + ation
The transformation from 'materialize' to 'materialization' is clear, but the specific technical meaning in computing is specialized.
Etymology
Materialization comes from material (from Latin materia) meaning 'matter' or 'substance', and in computing it means making a calculated result into a stored, 'real' copy you can use later, so the data becomes concrete and quicker to retrieve.