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material, materials
1. Woven flat cloth or fabric.
2. A substance used to make things.
3. Information; such as, facts, notes, and research used in the making of a book, movie, or other creative work.
4. Someone regarded in terms of his or her suitability to perform a particular job or task.
5. The tools and other things needed to perform a particular task.
6. Relating to or consisting of solid physical matter; such as, the material universe.
7. Worldly, relating to physical well-being rather than emotional or spiritual well-being; emphasis on material comforts.
8. In law, crucial to the outcome of a court case or to the validity of a legal document: "She was a material witness."
9. Etymology: in the 12th century, directly from or via Anglo-Norman matere and French matiere, from Latin materia, "timber, stuff of which something is made"; later, "subject, topic", formed from Latin mater "mother" which was translated from a Greek word for "wood, forest, timber, stuff, matter".

The material substance of the universe that has mass, occupies space, and is convertible to energy.

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(Greek: groats, meal, porridge; soft, pasty materials)
(Greek: ashes; waste materials)
Word Entries containing the term: “materials
acoustical material (s) (noun), acoustical materials (pl)
Any fabric or composition of material that is designed to reduce sounds or to absorb unwanted noises: The architect ordered acoustical material for the ceiling of the room from a reputable dealer who specialized in sound systems.
materials studies
The study of admixtures of matter or the basic matter from which products are made.

It includes adhesives, building materials, fuels, paints, leathers, etc.

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omniphobic material (s) (noun), omniphobic materials (pl)
A reference to materials that repel liquids consisting of water and oil: Omniphobic is a newly coined word meaning "it hates everything".

The substance forces away watery and oily liquids into tight droplets due to its surface texture, made up of 300-nanometer-tall "toadstools" with broad silicon dioxide caps and narrow silicon stems.

Water has very high surface tension, 72 milliNewtons per meter (mN/m) at room temperature, which means it easily forms near-spherical drops when placed on a surface.

Because of their near-spherical shape, the droplets meet the surface at a high angle above 150° if the water is sitting on a superhydrophobic surface.

—Compiled from "Dirt won't stick to omniphobic material"
by Colin Barras in the New Scientist; November 10, 2008.

Word Entries at Get Words containing the term: “materials
Brady materials
Exculpatory (free from guilt or blame) materials must be disclosed through discovery to the defense counsel by the prosecution when the defendant is to be tried for a crime.

From Brady versus Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), in which the Supreme Court ruled that suppression by the prosecution of evidence favorable to a defendant who has requested it violates due process.

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metallurgical or materials engineers
1. Engineers who develop methods to process and convert metals and other materials into usable forms.
2. Technology is developed to produce ceramic substances, new compounds, and metal alloys for use in computers, spacecraft, and industrial equipment.

These engineers develop new materials for applications that require exceptionally high strength and heat resistance and they also determine how materials fail, using instruments; such as, microprobes, scanning electron microscopes, and X-ray diffraction and examine failed, broken, or contaminated materials.

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thick-crystalline materials
Semiconductor material, typically measuring from 200-400 microns thick, which is cut from ingots or ribbons.
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