Definitions for "Reify"
Supports reification (a kind of instantiation or quasi-quotation) as needed by SWSL. It allows any RuleML tag available within the current sublanguage as content, treating it as a term for performing reasoning on. (See: term module)
From RDF Semantics ( 2004-02-10) (v.), (n.) To categorize as an object; to describe as an entity. Often used to describe a convention whereby a syntactic expression is treated as a semantic object and itself described using another syntax. In RDF, a reified triple is a description of a triple-token using other RDF triples.
convert into a thing, materialise (computing, formal methods) to realise an abstract specification as an executable program see also: hypostasis
consider an abstract concept to be real
"To treat an abstraction as if it were real. Marriage is the reification of a relationship, as are most entities in most databases."