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Textiles

Any cloth, woven or knitted fabric; especially the raw materials that are used to make clothing.

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degradation

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

The loss of desirable physical properties by a textile material as a result of some process or physical/chemical phenomenon.

density

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

The mass per unit volume (usually expressed as grams per cubic centimeter).

extractables

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

The material that can be removed from textiles by means of a solvent (in many cases, water).

doffing

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

The operation of removing full packages, bobbins, spools, roving cans, caps, etc., from a machine and replacing them with empty ones.

draw-twisting

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

The operation of stretching continuous filament yarn to align and order the molecular and crystalline structure in which the yarn is taken up by means of a ring-and-traveler ...

draw-winding

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

The operation of stretching continuous filament yarn to align or order molecular and crystalline structure. The drawn yarn is taken up on a parallel tub or cheese, resulting in a ...

dip treating

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

The process of passing fiber, cord, or fabric through an adhesive bath,followed by drying and heat-treating of the adhesive-coated fiber to obtain better adhesion.