Dematerialization

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Dematerialization

The process by which stocks and other securities cease to be represented by a physical certificate and become electronically recorded. Dematerialization has gradually become more common as computers have become more sophisticated and exchanges increasingly decide to close their trading floors.

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Is "British" not a melting-pot sort of idea that dematerializes constituents like "Irish"?

Nation, State and Empire in English Renaissance Literature: Shakespeare to Milton

In The Private World, for instance, the image, turned upside down and duplicated, looks like a reflection in a mirror; the wall dematerializes, as if it were an imaginary window onto the outdoors.

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Roof and towers are encased in a shimmering skin of lightweight metal mesh that softens and dematerializes their mass.

Towers of power: Bienne's arteplage is the largest of the four and is based around a trio of monumental towers clad in a shimmering lightweight metal mesh skin

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