ˌremaˈterialize, v.
[re- 5 a.]
intr. To materialize again. Hence ˌrematerialiˈzation; ˌremaˈterialized ppl. a.
| 1898 Howells Open-eyed Conspir. 100 Miss Gage rematerialised..after a moment's evanescence. 1907 W. De Morgan Alice-For-Short xxvii. 280 It was as nothing to Moses to cease to exist when hunted for, and to re-materialize when convenient. 1921 Glasgow Herald 29 Jan. 13/1 The fate of the Manchester Repertory and the failure of the Glasgow one to rematerialise warn us [etc.]. 1928 Sunday Express 8 Apr. 5/1 He comes back to each of the characters in the way in which they remember him, and..because of their glimpses of his rematerialised self, [etc.]. 1956 R. M. Lester Towards Hereafter xiv. 169 Levitation, of course, is often a form of dematerialization and rematerialization. 1959 Times 13 Oct. 16/4 Their lot is to be transfixed..sawn in half, dematerialized and rematerialized. 1962 Punch 26 Dec. 926/3 It's just a simple matter of Rematerialisation. 1978 Sci. Amer. Mar. 54/1 The virtual photon rematerializes into any one of a very large number of possible combinations of new particles. |