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Webster 1913 Edition
Materiel
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Maˊtéˊriˊel′
,Noun.
[F. See
Material
.] 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.
2.
Specifically:
(Military)
The arms, munitions, baggage, equipment, provisions, etc., of an army.