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materiel

noun
/mətɪəɹɪˈɛl/UK/mətɪɹiˈɛl/US

Etymology

Borrowed from French matériel. Doublet of material.

  1. borrowed from matériel

Definitions

  1. Military equipment, apparatus, and supplies.

    • Instead, it was a 1941 Volkswagen Kübelwagen Type 82, the first acquisition in a collection of war matériel begun 10 years ago by Mr. Coffman, a refrigeration service technician from Marengo, Ill.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at materiel. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at materiel. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at materiel

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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