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waste material

n. any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted; "they collect the waste once a week"; "much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers" [syn: waste, waste matter, waste product]

Usage examples of "waste material".

There will be problems of cleanliness (medieval clean room conditions), of finish, homogeneity of mixes of ingredients, labeling and packaging, of getting surfaces into decent thermal contact (electroplating gives a rough, lumpy finish which will have to be smoothed before mounting in the pressbut without deforming the grooves on the other side), of waste material that needs cutting off without either deforming or dirtying the disc.

The fabricator could convert rough grain to coarse or fine flour, with the waste material remade into a variety of forms.

We feed the waste material through at high speed, first to break it down and then to oxidize it.

His face looked as though it were modelled from the waste material you find under the claws of a very old lion.

We won't be in charge of that, but between us I think we can have some influence, and it'd be a shame to waste material that good under incompetents.

Should we dig cesspools, or haul the waste material back to New Eden for processing?