matériel — meaning in English
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English meaning
- facility noun A building, room or piece of equipment set up and used for a particular activity or service.
- gear noun Equipment or clothing needed for a particular activity.
- hardware noun The physical parts of a computer or electronic system — the processor, memory, drives, screen, cables and casing — as opposed to the programs that run on them.
- material noun A substance — such as wood, metal, plastic, or fabric — that something is made from.
- materiel noun Military equipment, apparatus, and supplies.
- plant noun A living organism, typically rooted in soil, that makes its own food through photosynthesis — trees, flowers, grasses, and similar life forms.
Senses
matériel is used for these senses in English:
- facility The physical means or contrivances to make something (especially a public service) possible; the required equipment, infrastructure, location etc. [from 19th c.]
- hardware (computing) The part of a computer that is fixed and cannot be altered without replacement or physical modification; motherboard, expansion cards, etc. Compare software.
- material Something (as data, observations, perceptions or ideas) that may be incorporated, elaborated or otherwise reworked into a finished form or new form, or may serve as the basis for arriving at interpretations, judgments or conclusions.
- material Cloth to be made into a garment; woven fabric.
- plant (botany) An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree.
- plant (botany) An organism of the kingdom Plantae. Now specifically, a living organism of the Embryophyta (land plants) or of the Chlorophyta (green algae), a eukaryote that includes double-membraned chloroplasts in its cells containing chlorophyll a and b, or any organism closely related to such an organism.
- plant (slang, obsolete) A stash or cache of hidden goods.
facility — full definition
- noun A building, room or piece of equipment set up and used for a particular activity or service.
- noun A service, feature or amenity provided for people to use, often one of several offered together.
- noun A natural ability to do something easily and well.
gear — full definition
- noun Equipment or clothing needed for a particular activity.
- noun A toothed wheel that meshes with another to transmit motion, or the setting of such a mechanism in a vehicle.
- verb To design or adjust something so it suits a particular purpose or audience.