The phrase "tangible material" is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to physical or concrete objects that can be touched or seen as opposed to abstract ideas or concepts. Example: The architect presented the design to the client with tangible material, including a scale model and material swatches, to help them visualize the final product.
"Well, the sound and the space the sound occupies are tangible material," Nauman explains.
They are also tangible: material objects that can be grasped, pasted, or leaned against a dresser mirror.
The territory inside is the most potent and astounding human territory of all, and is accessible by anyone, regardless of their tangible, material circumstances.
In the same spirit, nutritionism has lately helped to justify vitamin-enriched Diet Coke, bread bolstered with the Omega-3 fatty acids more readily found in fish oil, and many other new improvements on what Michael Pollan calls "the tangible material formerly known as food".
Wal-Mart shoppers wear outfits that range from appropriate to bizarre to some sort of tangible material that more-or-less covers their body parts.
To possess the images in the cache, the defendant must, at a minimum, know that the unlawful images are stored on a disk or other tangible material".
A large proportion of work in an information society involves manipulating abstract information and knowledge (understood in this context as an organized and comprehensive structure of facts, relationships, theories, and insights) rather than directly processing, manufacturing, or delivering tangible materials.
Besides, the team designed and implemented a set of learning experiences - multimedia and tangible materials to achieve the established learning goals.
True -- but the opposite of a profound truth is also true, and I think there's a mirror pleasure to be gained from dealing with actual, physical, tangible materials.
These tangible materials root the music in the context of their history, but also in the physical world, allowing people to look, listen, feel, and even smell or taste the songs if they want to.
Whereas financial and instrumental support involve exchange of tangible materials, receiving emotional support means older parents spend time with children, opening up and talking about worries, asking for advice and seeking comfort.
