The phrase "a relative material" is correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are discussing materials that are related or pertinent to a specific subject or situation.
Example: "In our research, we found that a relative material was essential for understanding the broader implications of our findings."
Alternatives: "a relevant material" or "a pertinent material".
Being a smoker was associated with a higher level of perceived income inequality, lower perception of relative material well-being and living in a community with a lower degree of trust and safety.
Relative material deprivation in a region could limit the capability of local businesses to invest in safer equipment and to set up the infrastructure to effectively disseminate work safety information.
Moreover, just as not everyone can "better themselves" in career or relative material terms, not everyone has a burning passion to - from which it does not follow that they are less good citizens or less deserving of politicians' interest or concern.
This paper presents a refined mathematical model for the assessment of relative material costs of the supporting structures for cable-stayed and cable suspension bridges.
But there are other factors that have made Peronist policies attractive to voters for such a long period of time, even if they have contributed to its relative material decline.
A first principle based mechanics model is proffered to account for the relative material propensity for either slip or twinning on the basis of atomic level generalized stacking/planar fault energies.
The government is to scrap its child poverty target and replace it with a new duty to report levels of educational attainment, worklessness and addiction, rather than relative material disadvantage, work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith has said.
Perhaps the best way to insult an American with aspirations to cosmopolitanism is to call him and his fellows ignorant rustics, functional only in English and kept safely away from real intellectual rigor and debate by geographical isolation, local peace, and relative material abundance.
The index is used to produce performance maps that rank relative material performance for particular design cases.
Calculation results shows that experiment data following the standards provide only relative material constants, such as apparent shear modulus and strengths.
