The food bank provided the material that was needed to help support a hungry community.
2. That which can be refined into a more finished form: Shanna's research provided new material for the biography she was writing about the painter.3. Information which is the object of study: The course outline for Tony's class indicated the material that would be covered each week.
The material for Billy's research project was to compare the response of the purchasing public to reading about a new material for camping equipment versus reading about a new matériel. He wanted to determine if the foreign sounding word affected the choice of the customers.
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.
2. A material having refractive indexes which can be altered by an applied electric field.
One example is lead lanthanum zirconate titanate, a transparent ferroelectric ceramic whose optical properties can be changed by an electric field.
In lasers, such materials can be used for beam deflection, beam modulation, and Q switching (a switch that allows for the build-up of energy before it is switched open to allow light to move out).
One example is lead lanthanum zirconte titanate, a transparent ferroelectric ceramic whose optical properties can be changed by an electric field.
In lasers, such materials can be used for beam deflection, beam modulation, and Q switching (Quality switch or an optical valve in a laser that prevents light from transmitting outside the resonating cavity).
The Q switch allows for the build-up of energy before it is switched open to allow light to move out.
2. A similar relation between material demand and population.
2. Specifically, the reuse of specific consumer or industrial items in order to conserve scarce materials; reduce pollution and littering, etc.
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.
This includes not only the direct use of resources for producing goods; such as, oil and timber harvest; but also "hidden flows" including mining overburden, processing waste, and soil erosion; as well as, the materials embodied in imports.