Any elaborate transformation process or algorithm.
The causing of any sort of mysterious sudden transmutation.
The premodern and early modern study of physical changes, particularly in Europe, Arabia, and China and chiefly in pursuit of an elixir of immortality, a universal panacea, and/or a philosopher's stone able to transmute base metals into gold, eventually developing into chemistry.
The entirety of all that is real.
The real world.
The state of being actual or real; realness.
An individual observer's own subjective perception of that which is real.
A real entity, event, or other fact.