Reification

Reifikation

(Consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living)

Reifizierung

(programming: Process that makes out of a non-computable/addressable object a computable/addressable one)

Verdinglichung

(Consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living)

Vergegenständlichung

(Consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living)