Matte Definition

măt
mat, mattes
noun
mattes
A map specifying how two electronic images of the same size and shape are to be cropped for combination into a single image.
American Heritage
A mixture of a metal with its sulfides, produced by smelting the sulfide ores of copper, lead, or nickel.
American Heritage
A dull surface or finish, often roughened.
Webster's New World
An impure mixture of sulfides that is produced in smelting the sulfide ores of copper, nickel, lead, etc.
Webster's New World

(art, photography) A decorative border around a picture.

The image is a perfect square of 8 cm (with white matte border the total dimensions are 14 cm tall by 11 cm wide).
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
adjective
Not shiny or glossy; dull.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:

Other Word Forms of Matte

Noun

Singular:
matte
Plural:
mattes

Origin of Matte

  • French curdled milk, matte from feminine of obsolete mat compact from Old French dull from Latin mattus stupefied mat2

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Matte Sentence Examples

  • As the matte contains on an average o.

  • The resulting matte runs 25%.

  • Dipping a pencil eraser in poster or acrylic paint in a color that contrasts with the matte, stamp a paw-print design on the matte and on a piece of construction paper big enough to cover the can.

  • This rich matte is then mixed with coke and salt-cake and melted down in an open hearth furnace.

  • The " American process " or " Pyritic smelting " consists in the direct smelting of raw ores to matte in blast furnaces.

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Words Starting With

MMAMAT

Words Ending With

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