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That in a complex system which constitutes the materials, or instruments employed, in distinction from the personnel, or men; as, the baggage, munitions, provisions, etc., of an army; or the buildings, libraries, and apparatus of a college,

Additional info about word: MATERIEL

That in a complex system which constitutes the materials, or instruments employed, in distinction from the personnel, or men; as, the baggage, munitions, provisions, etc., of an army; or the buildings, libraries, and apparatus of a college, in distinction from its officers.

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• BAGGAGE MASTER
  One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel.
• PERSONNEL
  The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel.
• SYSTEMATIZE
  To reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize; as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas. Diseases were healed, and buildings erected, before medicine
• SYSTEMLESS
  Not agreeing with some artificial system of classification. (more info) 1. Being without system.
• COMPLEXIONALLY
  Constitutionally. Though corruptible, not complexionally vicious. Burke.
• SYSTEMIZATION
  The act or process of systematizing; systematization.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• SYSTEMATISM
  The reduction of facts or principles to a system. Dunglison.
• COMPLEXUS
  A complex; an aggregate of parts; a complication.
• SYSTEMATIST
  1. One who forms a system, or reduces to system. 2. One who adheres to a system.
• SYSTEMATIZATION
  The act or operation of systematizing.
• EMPLOYER
  One who employs another; as, an employer of workmen.
• DISTINCTION
  1. A marking off by visible signs; separation into parts; division. The distinction of tragedy into acts was not known. Dryden. 2. The act of distinguishing or denoting the differences between objects, or the qualities by which one is known from
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• COMPLEXIONED
  Having a complexion; -- used in composition; as, a dark- complexioned or a ruddy-complexioned person. A flower is the best-complexioned grass, as a pearl is the best- colored clay. Fuller.
• COMPLEXEDNESS
  The quality or state of being complex or involved; complication. The complexedness of these moral ideas. Locke.
• COMPLEXNESS
  The state of being complex; complexity. A. Smith.
• COLLEGE
  1. A collection, body, or society of persons engaged in common pursuits, or having common duties and interests, and sometimes, by charter, peculiar rights and privileges; as, a college of heralds; a college of electors; a college of bishops. The
• SYSTEMATIC; SYSTEMATICAL
  Affecting successively the different parts of the system or set of nervous fibres; as, systematic degeneration. Systematic theology. See under Theology. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to system; consisting in system; methodical; formed
• SYSTEMIC
  Of or pertaining to the general system, or the body as a whole; as, systemic death, in distinction from local death; systemic circulation, in distinction from pulmonic circulation; systemic diseases. Systemic death. See the Note under Death, n.,
• UNEMPLOYMENT
  Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.
• BERTILLON SYSTEM
  A system for the identification of persons by a physical description based upon anthropometric measurements, notes of markings, deformities, color, impression of thumb lines, etc.
• CONTINENTAL SYSTEM
  The system of commercial blockade aiming to exclude England from commerce with the Continent instituted by the Berlin decree, which Napoleon I. issued from Berlin Nov. 21, 1806, declaring the British Isles to be in a state of blockade, and British
• INDISTINCTION
  Want of distinction or distinguishableness; confusion; uncertainty; indiscrimination. The indistinction of many of the same name . . . hath made some doubt. Sir T. Browne. An indistinction of all persons, or equality of all orders, is far from being
• CHAUTAUQUA SYSTEM OF EDUCATION
  The system of home study established in connection with the summer schools assembled at Chautauqua, N. Y., by the Methodist Episcopal bishop, J. H. Vincent.
• UNEMPLOYED
  1. Nor employed in manual or other labor; having no regular work. 2. Not invested or used; as, unemployed capital.
• PREEMPLOY
  To employ beforehand. "Preëmployed by him." Shak.
• TANDEM SYSTEM
  = Cascade system.
• DISEMPLOYMENT
  The state of being disemployed, or deprived of employment. This glut of leisure and disemployment. Jer. Taylor.