- Branche: Textiles
- Number of terms: 9358
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
Celanese Corporation is a Fortune 500 global technology and specialty materials company with its headquarters in Dallas, Texas, United States.
1. An individual warp yarn. A warp is composed of a number of ends. 2. An individual sliver, slubbing, roving, yarn, thread, or cord. 3. A short length or remnant of fabric.
Industry:Textiles
1. A system consisting of finely divided particles and the medium in which they are distributed.
2. Separation of light into colors by diffraction or refraction.
3. A qualitative estimation of the separation and uniform distribution of fibers in the liquid during the production of a wet-formed nonwoven fabric.
Industry:Textiles
1. A more or less gradual movement of molecules or ions through a solution or fiber as a result of the existence of a concentration gradient or repulsive or attractive forces.
2. The random movement of gas molecules.
Industry:Textiles
1. A process for combining several strands of sliver, roving, or yarn in yarn manufacturing.
2. The process of twisting together two or more singles or plied yarns, i.e., plying.
3. A British term for twisting. 4. The term doubling is sometimes used in a sense opposite to singling. This is unintentional plying.
5. A yarn, considerably heavier that normal, produced by a broken end becoming attached to and twisting into another end.
Industry:Textiles
1. A series of small holes made to receive a string or tape. A buttonhole stitch is worked around the holes.
2. A type of yarn guide used on a creel. 3. A fabric style with areas of cut-outs surrounded by stitching.
Industry:Textiles
1. A mechanical attachment on a loom. A dobby controls the harnesses to permit the weaving of geometric figures.
2. A loom equipped with a dobby. 3. A fabric woven on a dobby loom.
Industry:Textiles
1. A measure of the ease of transporting electric charge from one point to another in an electric field.
2. The reciprocal of resistivity.
Industry:Textiles
1. A method of dyeing in which one component of a blend or combination fabric is left undyed. The objective is accomplished by the use of dyes that have affinity for the fiber to be colored but not for the fiber to be reserved.
2. A method of treating yarn or fabric so that in the subsequent dyeing operation the treated portion will not be dyed.
Industry:Textiles
An intermediate used in theproduction of polyethylene terephthalate, the polymer from which polyester fibers and resins aremade.
Industry:Textiles
A test for flame resistance in which a specimen is mounted in a vertical holder and exposed to an open flame for a specific time. The open flame is then extinguished and continued flaming time and char length of the sample are measured.
Industry:Textiles
