noun

• 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) A process that makes a computable/addressable object out of a non-computable/addressable one; or a concrete class out of a generic one.
• (linguistics) The transformation of a natural-language statement into a form in which its actions and events are quantifiable variables.