Rematerialize vs. Dematerialize — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Rematerialize and Dematerialize
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Definitions
Rematerialize
(intransitive) To reappear in material form, having previously dematerialized.
Dematerialize
To deprive of physical substance; make immaterial
Medieval architects' attempts to dematerialize church walls into streams of light.
Rematerialize
(transitive) To make material again; to restore physical form to.
Dematerialize
To reduce the amount of material required for (a product or process)
Dematerialized the semiconductor industry.
Dematerialize
To convert (records, for example) from paper to digital or electronic form.
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Dematerialize
To lose physical substance; become immaterial
The dry ice seemed to dematerialize as it sublimated.
Dematerialize
(intransitive) To disappear by becoming immaterial.
Dematerialize
(transitive) To cause something to disappear by making it immaterial.
Dematerialize
(transitive) To remove the physical materials from (a process, etc.).
Dematerialize
To deprive of material or physical qualities or characteristics.
Dematerializing matter by stripping it of everything which . . . has distinguished matter.
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Dematerialize
Become immaterial; disappear
