1 information used when writing something such as a book, or information produced in various forms to help people or to advertise products: --
I'm in the process of collecting material for an article that I'm writing.
2 cloth that can be used to make things such as clothes: --
How much material will you need to make the skirt?
3 equipment that you need for a particular activity: --
4 relating to physical objects or money rather than emotions or the spiritual world: --
Material wealth never interested her.
the material world
5 important or having an important effect: --
If you have any information that is material to the investigation, you should state it now.
After fire, the transects were remeasured to quantify residual plant materials that were not consumed.
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.
The scarcity of materials on women living in frontier regions makes it harder to retrieve either personal or communal memories.
Their short-term retention of verbal materials seems to be comparable to that of average readers.
The former is designed to be used with electronically presented materials while the latter with real objects.
They were never observed feeding on the host egg, on the leaf, or on other materials on the leaf.
Though the book does not address aesthetic issues directly, the materials certainly hold aesthetic implications.
The following is necessarily a tentative interpretation of the materials.