mattes in English
noun
1
a matte color, paint, or finish.
the varnishes are available in gloss, satin, and matte
2
a sheet of cardboard placed on the back of a picture, either as a mount or to form a border around the picture.
The photographs were printed on 8 x 10 sheets, sepia-toned, and presented with ivory-toned mattes and walnut-stained mahogany frames.
3
an impure product of the smelting of sulfide ores, especially those of copper or nickel.
Botswana exports are dominated by diamonds, copper/nickel matte , beef and animal products; also exported are textiles and soda ash.
4
a mask used to obscure part of an image in a film and allow another image to be substituted, combining the two.
Virtually inventing methods of composite mattes in film made the invisible man truly come alive and real.
Use "mattes" in a sentence
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1. Copper mattes; cement copper (precipitated copper)
2. Nickel mattes, nickel oxide sinters and other intermediate products of nickel metallurgy; unwrought nickel; nickel waste and scrap
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