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dematerialize
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de·ma·te·ri·al·ize  (dm-tîr--lz)
tr. & intr.v. de·ma·te·ri·al·ized, de·ma·te·ri·al·iz·ing, de·ma·te·ri·al·iz·es
To deprive of or lose apparent physical substance; make or become immaterial: Mirrors have the effect of dematerializing a wall. The dry ice seemed to dematerialize as it sublimated.
dema·teri·al·i·zation (--l-zshn) n.
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Verb1.dematerialize - become immaterial; disappear
dematerialise
disappear, vanish, go away - become invisible or unnoticeable; "The effect vanished when day broke"
materialise, materialize, happen - come into being; become reality; "Her dream really materialized"
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; the outgrown childhood God of "I prayed, at first, a little Girl"; the faceless, dematerialized "Infinitude" of "My period had come for Prayer"; the Disneyesque savior of vermin addressed in the poem that begins "Papa above
Meeting her maker: Emily Dickinson's God by Ladin, Jay / Cross Currents
Both structures, like the Beinecke and the Morgan and the British Library and the Bibliotheque Nationale de France (old and new) and the New York Public Library and the Deutsche Bucherei in Leipzig, stood in the exhibition as emptied monuments, relics of an era that believed in the instantiation of knowledge and its collective pursuit, only to see both--knowledge and collectivity--dispersed into an endless flow of dematerialized code.
Candida Hofer: Norton Museum of Art by Bader, Graham / Artforum International
Air Force released a report on the feasibility of teleportation--the procedure, familiar to students of Star Trek and Doctor Who, in which an object is dematerialized in one location and reappears in another.
Weird science: building a better Tardis by Walker, Jesse / Reason
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