reification

noun4

1. •
   The consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living.

   • Computer scientists found out how functional reification is in programming languages: they call it ‘object-oriented programming’ […]. — 2018
2. •
   A process that makes a computable/addressable object out of a non-computable/addressable one; or a concrete class out of a generic one.
3. •
   The transformation of a natural-language statement into a form in which its actions and events are quantifiable variables.
4. •
   The consideration of a human being as an impersonal object.