The state of existing; existence. / An instance or quality of being actual or factual; fact. / (television) Live reporting on current affairs. / (historical, film) A short early motion picture.

plural of actual / (accounting, project management) Documented historical results; things that have happened rather than things that are planned.

(transitive) To make real; to realize. / (intransitive) To become actual or real. / (reflexive) To realize one's full potential.

present participle of actualize

(philosophy) The belief that actuality and existence are co‐extensive: i.e., that only actual things exist, and merely possible things do not.

plural of actualism

One who or that which actualizes.

plural of actualizer

(programming) A value supplied to a method or function, as opposed to a formal parameter.

The final real things in the universe, that are "experiential" in nature rather than strictly material. The most basic thing or construct in the universe. Some Whitehead scholars would hold that trillions of Actual Occasions compose one quark. Actual occasions make up everything, even empty space: