The phrase "a material body" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing physical objects, scientific concepts, or philosophical discussions about the nature of existence.
Example: "In physics, a material body is defined as an object that has mass and occupies space."
Alternatives: "a physical object" or "a tangible entity".
How does consciousness manifest in a material body?
What else can a human being be other than a material body?
Likewise, his theology, unlike Epicurus's, did not conceive of God as a material body.
Yet a human being cannot just be a material body; at any rate we both do, and ineluctably do not, see him or her as that.
"This statement is a material body blow to an investment proposition that had already started life in a challenging way," said Shore Capital analyst Clive Black.
However, as the object's mass increases, so does the energy required to keep accelerating it; thus, it would take infinite energy to accelerate a material body to the speed of light.
(1) The "mechanical philosophers" of the early seventeenth century held that any material body maintains a constant velocity unless acted on, and moreover held that all action is due to impact between one material particle and another.
Einstein was intrigued by the fact that the mass that figures in Newton's law of motion, F = ma the mass that measures the resistance of material bodies to being accelerated by an impressed force (inertial mass)—is invariably exactly the same as the mass that determines the extent to which any material body exerts an attractive gravitational force on any other.
Among these are questions of the constitution of matter, properties of matter due to its heaviness, the properties of the media within which bodies move and what is the cause of a body's coherence as a single material body.
It inhabits space and time (2012, 140, emphasis original)." Despite lacking concreteness, the self is much more than an enduring material body or a psychological continuity over time.
A macroscopic material body is, essentially, held together just by the relative rest of its constituent material parts.
