The phrase "a material element" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts such as legal, scientific, or technical discussions where specific components or factors are being identified as significant.
Example: "In the context of the contract, a material element is the agreed-upon price, which affects the overall validity of the agreement."
Alternatives: "a significant component" or "a crucial factor."
Speculation was also a major Congressional concern, but speculation is not a material element in mortgage banking operations.
And since New York law defines gambling as any bet where there is "a material element of chance," it's not hard to see why the judge ruled that daily fantasy was gambling.
Material damage in the form of small cracks is assumed to exist in a material element of interest.
It is a defense because knowledge that the property belongs to someone else is a material element of the crime and such knowledge may involve matter of law as well as fact.
Thus, while a lower limit of 6.0, by its mere inclusion, became a material element of the claim, that did not necessarily preclude the application of the doctrine of equivalents as to that element.
One approach is the theory of micropolar materials which introduces an independent rotation of a material element and the resulting stress and strain tensors are generally non-symmetric.
The micro-cell captures the key microstructural features and is embedded into a macro material element at the specimen surface.
The homogenized electroelastic properties of a representative material element are computed using the characteristic functions and the material properties of the fiber and matrix.
In other words, F PdX represents the deformation of a differential material element d X.
In both cases, the only forces that act on a small material element are local and must propagate across the surface of the element.
A key material element in these negotiations is the breast pump, which in many ways has transformed how middle-class Chinese women address expectations about and ambitions to breastfeed their babies.
