Definition of "matériel" []

• The equipment, apparatus, and supplies of a military force or other organization. See Synonyms at equipment. (noun)

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• "Even in wartime, when the production of materiel is crucial to national survival, Congress has never claimed such a power."
• "Additional sonic materiel is supplied by The Ten Thousand Things, who contributed four lush and unsettling “eldritch drones” to the project."
• "But this year, the Malaysian government announced that it had enacted an export-control law intended to strengthen its ability to curb trade in materiel for weapons of mass destruction."