Realization or realisation may refer to:
- Realization (climb), a sport climbing route in Ceüse, France
- Realization (finance), the pricing of security at market value
- Realization (linguistics), the act of creating an actual text in a human language from a syntactic representation
- Realisation (metrology), a physical form of a measurement standard
- Realization (probability), an actually observed value of random variable
- Realization (systems), a state space model implementing a given input-output behavior
- Benefits realisation management, programme and project management with a focus on realising benefits and outcomes.
- Self-realization, a psychological or spiritual change in one's sense of self
- In early electronic music; the playing back of an electronically produced composition; a work assembled by organizing sounds did not exist as music until it was realized with an acousmatic music performance using pre-recorded media, or generated in real-time with some form of music sequencer.
Famous quotes containing the word realization:
“Probably nothing in the experience of the rank and file of workers causes more bitterness and envy than the realization which comes sooner or later to many of them that they are “stuck” and can go no further.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)
“I believe in women; and in their right to their own best possibilities in every department of life. I believe that the methods of dress practiced among women are a marked hindrance to the realization of these possibilities, and should be scorned or persuaded out of society.”
—Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)
“The rush to books and universities is like the rush to the public house. People want to drown their realization of the difficulties of living properly in this grotesque contemporary world, they want to forget their own deplorable inefficiency as artists in life.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)