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Definition of 'matte'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (adj.) matte
having a dull or lusterless surface:
matte paint.

2. (n.) matte
a dull surface, as on metals, paint, paper, or glass.

3. matte
a tool for producing such a surface.

4. matte
an unfinished metallic product of the smelting of certain sulfide ores, as copper.

5. (v.t.) matte
to finish with a matte surface.

Etymology: (1640–50; < F mat (masc.), matte (fem.), OF < LL mattus moist, soft, perh. &indirdesc; L madēre to be wet)

Definition of 'matte'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) matte
a mixture of sulfides that forms when sulfide metal ores are smelted

2. (adj) flatness, lusterlessness, lustrelessness, mat, matt, matte
the property of having little or no contrast; lacking highlights or gloss

3. (verb) flat, mat, matt, matte, matted
not reflecting light; not glossy
"flat wall paint"; "a photograph with a matte finish"

4. (verb) felt, felt up, mat up, matt-up, matte up, matte, mat
change texture so as to become matted and felt-like
"The fabric felted up after several washes"

Definition of 'matte'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) matte
a partly reduced copper sulphide, obtained by alternately roasting and melting copper ore in separating the metal from associated iron ores, and called coarse metal, fine metal, etc., according to the grade of fineness. On the exterior it is dark brown or black, but on a fresh surface is yellow or bronzy in color

2. (noun) matte
a dead or dull finish, as in gilding where the gold leaf is not burnished, or in painting where the surface is purposely deprived of gloss

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