raw material
material
adjective[ before noun ]
uk /məˈtɪəriəl/us
relating to physical objects or money:
Increased material wealth is delivered by today's economic system.
He cares more about job satisfaction than material things.

Examples of material

material
They exercise political and military power over peripheries and enjoy a net surplus in the flow of materials or labor vital to core interests.
Local craftsmen still know the ritual, economic, political and environmental restrictions that were traditionally applied to certain of these valuable raw materials.
Managing and analyzing qualitative data : a description of tasks, techniques and materials.
However, this does not necessarily imply large-scale disturbance of cultural materials.
Second, did all of the materials that contained sak lu'um contain palygorskite?
More materials are finally added to table 1 making it more useful for people working with second-order nonlinear effects.
The materials presented here were collected using the methods of the ethnography of communication.
The following is necessarily a tentative interpretation of the materials.
Though the book does not address aesthetic issues directly, the materials certainly hold aesthetic implications.
They were never observed feeding on the host egg, on the leaf, or on other materials on the leaf.
The former is designed to be used with electronically presented materials while the latter with real objects.
Their short-term retention of verbal materials seems to be comparable to that of average readers.
The scarcity of materials on women living in frontier regions makes it harder to retrieve either personal or communal memories.
To examine if the nonnative speakers' results can be attributed to frequency and word-length differences in the materials, a reanalysis of the data was done.
After fire, the transects were remeasured to quantify residual plant materials that were not consumed.
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Collocations withmaterial

material

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access material
This would enable interested students to accessmaterial more easily without overwhelming the narrative.
additional material
In a few places the arguments would have been strengthened by use of additional material.
advanced material
The author has presented experimental results in some of the more advancedmaterial which is useful to understand practical performance and trade-offs of the various algorithms.
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