0 to replace certificates (= paper documents) by a system in which shares, etc. are bought, sold, and stored electronically:
The investor can dematerialize only those certificates that are already registered in his name.
Because urban icons circulate as images, one might argue that they are dematerialized.
Solid surfaces dematerialize and the textiles become translucent.
That is, the items of ritual exchange are dematerialized, "to treat material objects as being merely signs of an immaterial value to which they are subordinate" (206).
It is the disc seeming to dematerialize or the shadows taking on volume?
Trip then gets the mystery device, a temporal distress beacon, to power up, and soon all evidence of the future ship and its contents dematerialize.
Once she is gone, he emerges and watches his world that he created dematerialize into a new picture.
They are immortal and have powerful psionic abilities, including telepathy and the ability to dematerialize at will.
They attained immortality and subjugated other races before them thanks to their technology and ability to dematerialize and rematerialize at will.
