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skein artinya

untai

/skeɪn/

skein in Indonesian: untai, kalut. In English, skein means a quantity of thread, yarn, etc., wound on a reel then removed and loosely knotted into an oblong shape; a skein of cotton is formed by eighty turns of thread around a reel with a fifty-four inch diameter.

Indonesian words for skein

quantity of thread, yarn, etc., wound on a reel then removed and loosely knotted into an oblong shape
untai
tangle, weave, web
kalut

English meaning of skein

  1. noun A quantity of thread, yarn, etc., wound on a reel then removed and loosely knotted into an oblong shape; a skein of cotton is formed by eighty turns of thread around a reel with a fifty-four inch diameter.
  2. noun The membrane of a fish ovary.
  3. noun A group of wildfowl (for example, geese or swans) in flight.
  4. noun Synonym of spireme (“the tangled mass of strands of chromatin seen in the early stages of mitosis, originally believed to be a single continuous strand (or two in a diploid cell, etc.)”).

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Questions about skein in Indonesian

What is the meaning of skein in Indonesian?
Skein in Indonesian is untai, kalut.
Apa arti skein?
Skein: untai, kalut.
What does skein mean in English?
Skein means a quantity of thread, yarn, etc., wound on a reel then removed and loosely knotted into an oblong shape; a skein of cotton is formed by eighty turns of thread around a reel with a fifty-four inch diameter.

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