The act of procuring or obtaining; obtainment; attainment.
The purchasing department of a company.
Efficient contrivance; management; agency.
The consideration of a human being as an impersonal object.
The transformation of a natural-language statement into a form in which its actions and events are quantifiable variables.
The consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living.
A process that makes a computable/addressable object out of a non-computable/addressable one; or a concrete class out of a generic one.