material is a substance or mixture of substances that constitutes an object. Materials can be pure or impure, living or non-living matter. Materials can...

A composite material (also called a composition material or shortened to composite, which is the common name) is a material which is produced from two...

Building material is material used for construction. Many naturally occurring substances, such as clay, rocks, sand, wood, and even twigs and leaves, have...

Cork is an impermeable buoyant material. It is the phellem layer of bark tissue which is harvested for commercial use primarily from Quercus suber (the...

"Material Girl" is a song recorded by American singer Madonna for her second studio album, Like a Virgin (1984). It was released on January 23, 1985, by...

A raw material, also known as a feedstock, unprocessed material, or primary commodity, is a basic material that is used to produce goods, finished goods...

Materials science is an interdisciplinary field of researching and discovering materials. Materials engineering is an engineering field of finding uses...

materiality in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Materiality can refer to distinct concepts in different professions and areas of study: Materiality (architecture)...

Changthangi goats. In common parlance today, pashmina may refer either to the material or to the variant of the Kashmir shawl that is made from it. Both cashmere...

Lime is an inorganic material composed primarily of calcium oxides and hydroxides, usually calcium oxide and/or calcium hydroxide. It is also the name...

Smart materials, also called intelligent or responsive materials,[page needed] are designed materials that have one or more properties that can be significantly...

In nuclear engineering, fissile material is material that can undergo nuclear fission when struck by a neutron of low energy. A self-sustaining thermal...

In materials science, fatigue is the initiation and propagation of cracks in a material due to cyclic loading. Once a fatigue crack has initiated, it grows...

noun: Material World (TV series), a Canadian television sitcom in the 1990s Material World (radio programme), a BBC Radio 4 science programme Material World:...

belong into this category. Natural materials are used as building materials and clothing. Types include: Biotic materials Wood (rattan, bamboo, bark, etc...

law, a material witness is a person with information alleged to be material concerning a criminal proceeding. The authority to detain material witnesses...

Material Design (codenamed Quantum Paper) is a design language developed by Google in 2014. Expanding on the "cards" that debuted in Google Now, Material...

accumulations of textile fibers, hair and other materials, usually found on and around clothing. Certain materials used in the manufacture of clothing, such...

Material culture is the aspect of culture manifested by the physical objects and architecture of a society. The term is primarily used in archaeology and...

The Material is an American rock band from San Diego, California. Colleen D'Agostino (vocals) moved to San Diego to pursue a music degree at San Diego...

A scrim is a woven material, either finely woven lightweight fabric widely used in theatre, or a heavy, coarse woven material used for reinforcement in...

The field of strength of materials (also called mechanics of materials) typically refers to various methods of calculating the stresses and strains in...

A binder or binding agent is any material or substance that holds or draws other materials together to form a cohesive whole mechanically, chemically...

Strategic material is any sort of raw material that is important to an individual's or organization's strategic plan and supply chain management. Lack...

A superhard material is a material with a hardness value exceeding 40 gigapascals (GPa) when measured by the Vickers hardness test. They are virtually...

(colloquially known as porn or porno) has been defined as sexual subject material "such as a picture, video, or text" that is intended for sexual arousal...

The Seth Material is a collection of writing dictated by Jane Roberts to her husband from late 1963 until her death in 1984. Roberts claimed the words...

A semiconductor is a material that has an electrical conductivity value falling between that of a conductor, such as copper, and an insulator, such as...

mechanics, the material derivative describes the time rate of change of some physical quantity (like heat or momentum) of a material element that is...

The material conditional (also known as material implication) is an operation commonly used in logic. When the conditional symbol → {\displaystyle \rightarrow...