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raw material

noun

Definitions

  1. A material in its unprocessed, natural state considered usable for manufacture.

    • Petroleum is the raw material refined into various fuels and needed for countless chemicals.

  2. Any physical product serving as input to a factory or other installation which processes…

    Any physical product serving as input to a factory or other installation which processes it.

    • The assembly plant's raw materials are finished parts from Asian suppliers.
    • Teams will place all their unassembled raw materials and tools in the competition area along with two provided 5-gallon buckets of contaminated water and two provided stirring sticks.

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No curated loop yet for raw material. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA