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Look up: moiré

  1. Moire
    Occurs when screen angles are wrong causing odd patterns in photographs.
    Found on http://www.printusa.com/glos.htm

  2. Moiré
    The word 'moiré' comes from the French word for mohair and is defined as 'having a watered or wavelike pattern' (Collins English Dictionary). Moiré patterns can occur whenever similar, regular patterns are superimposed on each other and are offset or angled with respect to one another. They are commonly seen amongst the folds of net curtains and, more relevantly to Display Monitor readers, in CRT displays.
    Found on http://www.meko.co.uk/moire.shtml

  3. moire
    [adj] - of silk fabric 2. [n] - silk fabric with a wavy surface pattern
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  4. Moiré
    (Digital cameras and photo printers) An interference pattern brought about when images of differing resolution are superimposed. This problem may occur, for example, if small diamond shapes are to be reproduced on a television screen.
    Found on http://www.olympus.co.uk/consumer/208_10

  5. Moire
    A pattern created by printing several repetitive designs on top of each other. In four-colour process printing, four screens of coloured dots print on top of each other. If the angles of the halftone screens of each of the four colours are not properly aligned with each other, an undesirable, blurry pattern, called 'moire' appears in the final imag...
    Found on http://www.britishprint.com/tw/glossary.

  6. moire
    tightly-woven silk fabric Category: Various industries and crafts • an interference pattern in the reproduced picture due to unwanted modulation products Category: Electrical engineering and energy • a wavy pattern resulting from interference beats between two sets of periodic structures or scan patterns,or between a periodic structure and a scan pattern Category: Electr...
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  7. moiré
    Finely ribbed furnishing fabric, usually silk or silk mixture, that has a lustrous finish with a watered or wavy figure. The word is a French adaptation of mohair, from which the fabric was first made. Moreen or morine is the now obsolete English version of moiré, which referred to a strong woollen material sometimes mixed with cotton and used for ...
    Found on http://www.antique-crafts.co.uk/glossary

  8. Moire
    Moire noun [ French Confer Mohair .] 1. Originally, a fine textile fabric made of the hair of an Asiatic goat; afterwards, any textile fabric to which a watered appearance is given in the process of calendering. 2. A watered, clouded, or frosted appearance produced upon either textile fabrics or metallic surfaces. Moire antique , a superior kind of thick moi ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/M/87

  9. Moiré
    Moi`ré' adjective [ French, p.p. of moirer to water (silk, etc.). See Moire .] Watered; having a watered or clouded appearance; -- as of silk or metals.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/M/87

  10. Moiré
    Moi`ré' noun 1. A watered, clouded, or frosted appearance on textile fabrics or metallic surfaces. 2. Erroneously, moire, the fabric.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/M/88

  11. Moiré
    Moi·ré' transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Moiréed ; present participle & verbal noun Moiréeing .] Also Moire [ French moiré .] To give a watered or clouded appearance to (a surface).
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/M/88

  12. moire
    1. Originally, a fine textile fabric made of the hair of an Asiatic goat; afterwards, any textile fabric to which a watered appearance is given in the process of calendering. ... 2. A watered, clouded, or frosted appearance produced upon either textile fabrics or metallic surfaces. Moire antique, a superior kind of thick moire. ... Origin: F. Cf. Moh ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  13. moire
    watered adjective (of silk fabric) having a wavelike pattern
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  14. moire
    watered-silk noun silk fabric with a wavy surface pattern
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  15. Moire
    • (n.) A watered, clouded, or frosted appearance produced upon either textile fabrics or metallic surfaces. • (n.) Originally, a fine textile fabric made of the hair of an Asiatic goat; afterwards, any textile fabric to which a watered appearance is given in the process of calendering. • (n.) A watered, clouded, or frosted appearance...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  16. Moire
    Moire is a Scottish girl name. The meaning of the name is `bitter` Moira,Moire,Moirrey,Mollie,Molly,Moreen,Moya The name Moire doesn`t appear In the US top 1000 most common names over de last 128 years. The name Moire seems to be unique!
    Found on http://i-am-pregnant.com/names/girls/Moi

  17. moiré
    type of fabric finish with a watered, wavy appearance
    Found on http://www.decoratorsecrets.com/glossary

  18. MOIRE
    A French word used to describe the type of pattern produced when printing two or more colours in half tone derived from screens, the angles of which differ by only a few degrees.
    Found on http://www.fiskprinters.co.uk/glossary.a

  19. Moire
    Undesirable pattern in halftones and screen tints made with improperly aligned screens.
    Found on http://www.e-printing.co.uk/glossary.htm


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