1. The physical appearance of an object (see: apport) or complete or partial person from the spirit world.
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2. When something appears as from nowhere. Apports reappear after being de-materialized. It is also associated with poltergeist-like activity when stones appear in mid-air to fall on a house. Materializations of human forms or just of limbs and hands sometimes occur in séances, and wax impressions have been made of them.
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