A small cylinder or sphere of a single material. In injection molding,  polymer material is extruded into pellets for shipping storage and feeding into machines. The shape is chosen to make storage efficient and because the small particles flow well from hoppers into machines. In additive manufacturing, a growing number of material extrusion systems use pellets as their feed material instead of filament.

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