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Materiel n.

Those objects in a complex system which constitute the materials, or instruments employed, in distinction from the personnel, or men; for example, the buildings, libraries, and apparatus of a college, in distinction from its officers; used in a collective sense.

Specifically: (Military) The arms, munitions, baggage, equipment, provisions, etc., of an army.

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Etymology of 'Materiel'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Materiel" Quotes from Famous Books

... this be so, the question as to what should be the materiel of education, becomes singularly simplified. It might be matter of dispute what processes have the greatest effect in developing the intellect; but it can hardly be disputed what facts it is most advisable that a man entering into ...

— The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) • John Ruskin

... desultory, Fitzpiers's mental constitution was not without its admirable side; a keen inquirer he honestly was, even if the midnight rays of his lamp, visible so far through the trees of Hintock, lighted rank literatures of emotion and passion as often as, or oftener than, the books and materiel of science. ...

— The Woodlanders • Thomas Hardy

Words linked to "Materiel" : baggage, equipment, military machine, armed services