To invest with material characteristics; to make perceptible to the senses; hence, to present to the mind through the medium of material objects
If a person or thing materializes, they suddenly appear, after they have been invisible or in another place. Tamsin materialized at her side, notebook at the ready = appear
To regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or principles which are appropriate to matter
To cause to assume a character appropriate to material things; to occupy with material interests; as, to materialize thought
ma·teri·al·ize materializes materializing materialized in BRIT, also use materialise1. If a possible or expected event does not materialize, it does not happen. A rebellion by radicals failed to materialize
something that comes into existence as a result; "industrialism prepared the way for acceptance of the French Revolution's various socialistic offspring"; "this skyscraper is the solid materialization of his efforts"
when a gifted physical medium has abundance of ectoplasm, afterlife intelligences are able to reduce their vibrations to a level when they can be seen with physical eyes - see physical mediumship chapter 13, especially Mirabelli and Helen Duncan, chapter 14