Materiality
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Materiality can refer to distinct concepts in different professions and areas of study:
- Materiality (architecture)
- Materiality (auditing), relating to the importance of an amount, transaction, or discrepancy
- Materiality (digital text), refers to the physical medium used to store and convey the text
- Materiality (law), a legal term that has different meanings depending on context
- Materiality (social sciences and humanities), the notion that the physical properties of a cultural artifact have consequences for how the object is used
- Materiality (sustainability), defines a method for analysing the alignment of a business and their stakeholders and prioritising issues that matter the most