materialize v.
to appear in a (reconstituted) physical form after travelling through space or time by means of a matter transmitter or similar device
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1927
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Benjamin Witwer
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Some weeks previously I had finally succeeded in transmitting a small wooden ball by radio. Perhaps I should say that I had ‘dissolved’ it into its vibrations, for it was not until this later day that I had been able to materialize or ‘receive’ it after it had been ‘sent’.
Radio Mates in Amazing Stories July 371/1 -
1927
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Francis Flagg
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You must realize that a time traveler runs certain hazards. At any place on the road, he may materialize inside of a solid of some sort. In that case, he is almost certain to be blown up or otherwise destroyed.
Machine Man of Ardathia in Amazing Stories Nov. 801/1 -
1935
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Laurence Manning
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Suppose that we were to materialize right in front of a meteor going at half a mile a second—suppose we materialized in the middle of the earth? We'd not live a second!
World of the Mist in Wonder Stories Sept. 413/1 -
1937
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Eric Frank Russell
Leslie J. Johnson
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‘How did you know that I am a time traveler?’ I demanded. ‘Because your time-traveling device materialized out of thin air before the eyes of half a hundred citizens’.
Seeker of To-Morrow in Astounding Stories July 143/1 -
1955
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Ron Butler
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Just then, something began to materialize in the ’porter…. It was Uncle Phil.
What Number Are You Calling? in Fantastic Oct. 85/1 -
1964
Gene Roddenberry
We get our first look at this procedure, too, as it beams them to materialize on the planet surface far below.
in S. E. Whitfield & G. Roddenberry Making of ‘Star Trek’ (1968) 48 -
1992
Neal Stephenson
You can’t just materialize anywhere in the Metaverse, like Captain Kirk beaming down from on high.
Snow Crash 34 -
2003
Warp speed is perhaps not important if you can simply materialize yourself and your spaceship from any space-time-reality to any other space-time-reality.
My Big Toe 143
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