pretexture
pretexture noun: pretext.
Noun
pretexture (plural pretextures)
- pretext
- Now we haue ftudyed both textures of words, and pretextures of manners to shrowd dishonesty.1624, Edward Sutton, Anthropophagus: the Man-eater, page 34
- A texture that is applied beforehand.
- Pore formation did not occur at the ridges of the honeycomb cells while NPs were grouped at the center of the hexagonal Al pretextures.2007 July, Seung Hun Hun, Doh Hyung Riu, Jinsub Choi, Sung Joong Kim, Eun Ju Jin, Dong Gun Shin, Kwang Youn Cho, “Surface and bottom structures of grouped alumina nanopores”, in Journal of the Korean...
Verb
pretexture (third-person singular simple present pretextures, present participle pretexturing, simple past and past participle pretextured)
- To apply a texture beforehand.
- However, it is difficult to pretexture large samples because they require a high imprinting pressure.2008, Kazuyuki Nishio, Takashi Yanagishita, Sho Hatakeyama, Hiroaki Maegawa, Hideki Masuda, “Fabrication of ideally ordered anodic porous alumina with large area by vacuum deposition of Al onto...
Forms of pretexture
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | pretextures |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | pretextures |
| present participle | pretexturing |
| past participle | pretextured |
| past | pretextured |
Questions about pretexture
- What does pretexture mean?
- Pretexture means pretext.
- What part of speech is pretexture?
- Pretexture can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of pretexture?
- The plural of pretexture is pretextures.
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