object matter
/ˈɒbdʒɪktˌmatə/ /ˈɒbdʒɛktˌmatə/noun
The matter that is the object of an action or study; the matter dealt with or treated.
- subject matter is the more commonly used term..
Origin
Mid 17th century; earliest use found in Στερέωμα. From object + matter, after subject matter.
- white squill
- white squire
- white staff
- white steenbras
- White's thrush
- white stick
- white stock
- white stocking
- Whitestone
- white straits
- white straw
- white strawberry
- White's tree frog
- white stuff
- white sturgeon
- white sugar
- White Sulphur Springs
- White Sunday
- white supremacism
- white supremacist
- panophthalmitis
- panoplia
- panoplied
- panoply
- panoptic