Material is anything made of matter, constituted of one or more substances. Wood, cement, hydrogen, air and water are all examples of materials. Sometimes the term "material" is used more narrowly to refer to substances or components with certain physical properties that are used as inputs to production or manufacturing. In this sense, materials are the parts required to make something else, from buildings and art to stars and computers.
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... by a variety of basic and sophisticated strategies, depending on the material and the software available ... pass must leave a small amount of material so the tool can cut accurately while finishing, but not so little that the tool and material deflect instead of ... Finishing Finishing involves a slow pass across the material in very fine steps to produce the finished part ...
... phenomenon in which a change in temperature of a suitable material is caused by exposing the material to a changing magnetic field ... domains of a chosen (magnetocaloric) material to become disoriented from the magnetic field by the agitating action of the thermal energy (phonons ... If the material is isolated so that no energy is allowed to (re)migrate into the material during this time, i.e ...
... High-temperature corrosion is chemical deterioration of a material (typically a metal) as a result of heating ... compounds capable of oxidizing (or assisting the oxidation of) the material concerned ... For example, materials used in aerospace, power generation and even in car engines have to resist sustained periods at high temperature in which they may be exposed to an ...
... When the coercivity of the material parallel to an applied field is the smaller of the two, the differential susceptibility is a function of the applied field and self interactions ... When the material is not saturated, the effect will be nonlinear and dependent upon the domain wall configuration of the material ...
Famous quotes containing the word material:
“The only happy talkers are dandies who extract pleasure from the very perishability of their material and who would not be able to tolerate the isolation of all other forms of composition; for most good talkers, when they have run down, are miserable; they know that they have betrayed themselves, that they have taken material which should have a life of its own, to dispense it in noises upon the air.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)
“The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has its translation, through humanity, into the spiritual and necessary sphere, where it plays a part as indestructible as any other.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Appalling is the soul of a man! Better might one be pushed off into the material spaces beyond the uttermost orbit of our sun, than once feel himself fairly afloat in himself.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)