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reification
reification
See also: réification
English
Noun
reification (countable and uncountable, plural reifications)
- The consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living.
- The consideration of a human being as an impersonal object.
- (programming) Process that makes a computable/addressable object out of a non-computable/addressable one.
- (linguistics) The transformation of a natural-language statement into a form in which its actions and events are quantifiable variables.
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Consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living
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Consideration of a human being as an impersonal object
programming: Process that makes out of a non-computable/addressable object a computable/addressable one
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