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ma·te·ri·al M0149200 (mə-tîr′ē-əl)n.1. The substance or substances out of which a thing is or can be made.2. Something, such as an idea or information, that is to be refined and made or incorporated into a finished effort: material for a comedy.3. materials Tools or apparatus for the performance of a given task: writing materials.4. Yard goods or cloth.5. A person who is qualified or suited for a position or activity: The members of the board felt that she was vice-presidential material.adj.1. Of, relating to, or composed of matter.2. Of, relating to, or affecting physical well-being; bodily: "the moral and material welfare of all good citizens" (Theodore Roosevelt).3. Of or concerned with the physical as distinct from the intellectual or spiritual: "Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world" (Ralph Waldo Emerson).4. Being both relevant and consequential; crucial: testimony material to the inquiry. See Synonyms at relevant.5. Philosophy Of or relating to the matter of reasoning, rather than the form. [Middle English, consisting of matter, material, from Old French, from Late Latin māteriālis, from Latin māteria, matter; see māter- in Indo-European roots.]materials (məˈtɪərɪəlz) pl nthe equipment necessary for a particular activitymaterials- taboret - An artist's multi-drawer cabinet table for tools and materials.
- compendium - Latin for "that which is weighed together," it is a complete summary or abridgment or a concise collection of materials—not an all-encompassing or comprehensive work (plural is compendiums or compendia).
- hygroscopic - Describing the ability or tendency of a material to take up moisture readily from the surrounding air or other moist materials.
- molecular gastronomy - The study and application of chemistry, physics, and other scientific principles on cooking processes, preparation, and materials.
EncyclopediaSeematerialMaterials Related to Materials: materials science, Materials EngineeringMATERIALS. Everything of which anything is made. 2. When materials are furnished to a workman he is bound to use them according to his contract, as a tailor is bound to employ the cloth I furnish him with, to make me a coat that shall fit me, for if he so make it that I cannot wear it, it is not a proper employment of the materials. But if the undertaker use ordinary skill and care, he will not be responsible, although the materials may be injured; as, if a gem be delivered to a jeweler, and it is broken without any unskillfulness, negligence or rashness of the artisan, he will not be liable. Poth. Louage, n. 428. 3. The workman is to use ordinary diligence in the care of the materials entrusted with him, or to exercise that caution which a prudent man takes of his own affairs, and he is also bound to preserve them from any unexpected danger to which they may be exposed. 1 Gow. R. 30; 1 Camp. 138. 4. When there is no special contract between the parties, and the materials perish while in the possession of the workman or undertaker, without his default, either by inevitable casualty, by internal defect, by superior force, by robbery or by any peril not guarded against by ordinary diligence, he is not responsible. This is the case only when the material belongs to the employer and the workman only undertakes to put his work upon it. But a distinction must be observed in the case when the employer has engaged a workman to make him an article out of his own materials, for in that case the employer has no property in it, until the work be completed, and the article be delivered to him; if, in the mean time, the thing perishes, it is the loss of the workman, who is wholly its owner, according to the maxim res perit domino. In the former case the employer is the owner; in the latter the workman; in the first case it is a bailment, in the second a sale of the thing in futuro. Domat. B. 1, t. 4, Sec. 7, n. 3; Id. B. 1, t. 4, Sec. 8, n. 10. 5. Another distinction must be made in the case when the thing given by the employer was to become the property of the workman, and an article was to be made out of similar materials, and before its completion it perished. In this case the title to the thing having passed to the workman, the loss must be his. 1 Blackf. 353; 7 Cowen, 752, 756, note; 21 Wend. 85; 3 Mason, 478; Dig. 19, 2, 31; 1 Bouv. Inst. 1006-7. 6. In some of the states by their laws persons who furnish materials for the construction of a building, have a lien against such building for the payment of the value of such materials. See Lien of Mechanics. materials
materials inputs into the PRODUCTION process most of which are embodied in the finished goods being manufactured. Materials include raw materials such as metal ores and cotton, and manufactured components. The materials which are embodied in the finished product are known as DIRECT MATERIALS whereas other materials such as lubricants and other consumables which are used up during the production process are known as INDIRECT MATERIALS. See VALUE ADDED.See MA See M |