What is "piece of material"

Usage examples of "piece of material".

Consider, for example, a piece of material in which we make little coils and condensers (or their solid state analogs) 1,000 or 10,000 angstroms in a circuit, one right next to the other, over a large area, with little antennas sticking out at the other end---a whole series of circuits.

And while she watched, clearly surprised, he gathered the fragments, a beam, and a piece of material that might once have been drapery.

At this moment the bank was accepting the tenth piece of material.

With the ability to squeeze 1 million or more transistors on a single piece of silicon, designers can now build entire algorithms on a chipa complete crypto system on a piece of material many times smaller than a dime.

I then thrust the small ball of tightly rolled cloth into her mouth, where, instantly, as it was actually a rather large piece of material, it expanded.

On Sark he had an excellent record as an intelligent and faithful piece of material.

Any document, any record, any set of directions could be converted into microfilm, and a tiny piece of material on which that was recorded could be hidden anywhere and never be uncovered by anything but blind luck.

He then, upon this outburst, casually ripped away a large piece of the garment, stripping her to the thighs and, on the left side, when he discarded the piece of material, to the hip.

Under the light surface powder, Gavril saw the sodden folds of a piece of material appear.

As the door opened inward a box-like piece of material fell over and came to rest directly before their feet.

It had been patched on one shoulder with a piece of material that did not match in color, as if taken from a different batch of dye.

He held out his hand and let a piece of material fall into the flames.