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matériel

noun

mə-ˌtir-ē-ˈel

variants or materiel

Definition of matériel

as in equipment

items needed for the performance of a task or activity the army is running short of clothing and other matériel

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Recent Examples of matériel The expenditure of those munitions goes along with other losses of materiel, including fighter jets, airborne early warning and reconnaissance planes, helicopters and drones. — Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 2 Aug. 2026 Iran has provided no overall information on its materiel losses. — Jon Gambrell, Fortune, 19 July 2026 The goal now is to create a new family of cargo vehicles capable of carrying materiel while operating within the demands of modern warfare. — David Szondy june 03, New Atlas, 3 June 2026 Strategic airlift, with an objective of efficiently supplying a wide range of front-line commands with materiel specific to their operational needs over multiple domains and theatres globally. — Aditya Jadhav, Interesting Engineering, 28 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for matériel

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Also, many ingredients for the final material still have to come from Earth, requiring the transport of hundreds of tons of cargo and equipment to Mars over several months.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 26 Sep. 2026
Ahead of this storm, Formica said workers secured dock lines, moved loose items and equipment out of harm’s way and parked the marina’s trucks and forklifts at the highest point of the property.

— Leah Willingham, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of equipment

Noun

Schreiner’s short tenure was marked by friction with others involved in Chatham’s elections apparatus.

— Adam Van Brimmer, AJC.com, 23 Sep. 2026
Additionally, The Craft of Living, long available only in a partial, bowdlerized version, has finally been translated in full, by Julian Sachs, with a helpful introduction and scholarly apparatus by Iuri Moscardi.

— Max Norman, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of apparatus

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But he and the offensive line were demoralized on a pair of run-stuffs.

— Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 27 Sep. 2026
The first clues came in the 1970s, when Jacob Bekenstein and Stephen Hawking calculated the entropy of black holes — typically a measure of how much stuff fits inside an object.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2026

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