English edit

Etymology edit

re- +‎ materialize

Verb edit

rematerialize (third-person singular simple present rematerializes, present participle rematerializing, simple past and past participle rematerialized)

  1. (intransitive) To reappear in material form, having previously dematerialized.
    • 1995, Margaret Simpson, Strange Orbit, page 68:
      The spaceship was rematerializing around all of us.
  2. (transitive) To make material again; to restore physical form to.
    • 2016, A.K. Brown, Jumpstart (Champagne Universe Series: Book 1), page 15:
      "So, I'll need you to look at the nth field targeting so when the object dematerializes from here, we can rematerialize it there."

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