material(PHYSICAL)

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immaterial | American Dictionary

immaterial
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ˌɪm·əˈtɪər·i·əl/
not important; not likely to make a difference:
It’s immaterial whether the trial is in San Diego or Los Angeles or anyplace else.

Examples of immaterial

immaterial
The latter group of critiques has precipitated a general dismissal of family influences as immaterial except, possibly, at the extremes.
Because of the absence of interference between adjacent troughs, the phase difference between neighbouring troughs is physically immaterial.
Immaterial souls would simply stand out as surds in the natural world.
The gap between the intuitive decision and the reasoned opinion provided by a different judge is immaterial.
Finally, objects and money were owned collectively and used individually by nuns, serving material and immaterial purposes.
On the other hand, "compromises" introducing elements, such as race, that are immaterial under any constitutionally permitted political morality would be forbidden.
Of course, it is true that this conclusion implies that the way that you finance investment is immaterial.
He thinks that one will obviously be imagining an empty, immaterial extension.
Mental states are attached to the brain instead of being modes (inseparable parts) of an immaterial substance.
This means two distinct immaterial beings intimately related.
Also, all potential effects of fertility differentials between migrants and members of the incumbent population become immaterial.
In the following we will identify all signatures which represent the same set of pairs (that is, order and repetitions are immaterial).
Perversely, it is the very materiality of the luxury objects with which her father surrounds her that suggest her immaterial qualities.
But the immaterial ponderings and playful antics of the long dead were not all the mediums channeled.
They do this by rendering musical, photographic and filmic objects, in the immaterial form of code, open to re-formation, to repeated re-creation.
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