RAW MATERIAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does raw material mean? 

• RAW MATERIAL (noun)
  The noun RAW MATERIAL has 1 sense:

1. material suitable for manufacture or use or finishing

  Familiarity information: RAW MATERIAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RAW MATERIAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Material suitable for manufacture or use or finishing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

raw material; staple

Hypernyms ("raw material" is a kind of...):

material; stuff (the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "raw material"):

feedstock (the raw material that is required for some industrial process)

 Context examples 

Researchers used corn starch, an abundant, cheap and biodegradable raw material, to develop microcapsules as a container to release thyme essential oil into the water.

(Thyme oil and corn starch prove deadly for mosquito larvae, SciDev.Net)

Biomass is produced from microalgae which is used to extract the oil, which then serves as the raw material.

(Petrobras considers producing biodiesel from microalgae, Agência Brasil)

The amount of delivered mass needed for human exploration could be greatly reduced by using Martian natural resources for a water supply and as raw material for producing hydrogen fuel.

(A Fresh Look at Older Data Yields a Surprise Near the Martian Equator, NASA)

Any whole or part of a plant (including plant exudates), animal or microorganism that is unprocessed (raw material), or that has been processed, pulverized or extracted.

(Natural Product, NCI Thesaurus)

Itaipu Binacional, the world's biggest generator of hydroelectric energy, founded the first biomethane plant that uses a mixture of sewage, grass clippings, and restaurant leftover food as raw material.

(Biomethane rises as alternate source of energy in Brazil, Agência Brasil)

After half an hour the sun shone again and the grocer's automobile rounded Gatsby's drive with the raw material for his servants' dinner—I felt sure he wouldn't eat a spoonful.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)