realization

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun The act of realizing or the condition of being realized.
• noun The result of realizing.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A bringing or coming into real existence or manifestation, as of something conceived or imagined: as, the realization of a project.
• noun Perception of the reality or real existence of something; a realizing sense or feeling: as, the realization of one's danger.
• noun The act of realizing upon something; conversion into money or its equivalent; exchange of property for its money value.
• noun The act of converting money into land or real estate.
• noun Also spelled realisation.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun The act of realizing, or the state of being realized.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun The act of realizing; an act of figuring out or becoming aware.
• noun The act of realizing; the act of making real.
• noun The result of an artistic effort.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun coming to understand something clearly and distinctly
• noun a musical composition that has been completed or enriched by someone other than the composer
• noun making real or giving the appearance of reality
• noun the completion or enrichment of a piece of music left sparsely notated by a composer
• noun something that is made real or concrete
• noun a sale in order to obtain money (as a sale of stock or a sale of the estate of a bankrupt person) or the money so obtained