Textiles

Textiles

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

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flocculating

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

Coagulating or coalescing a material into a small, loosely aggregated mass.

float

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

1. The portion of a warp or filling yarn that extends over two or more adjacent filling picks or warp ends in weaving for the purpose of forming certain designs. 2. In a knit ...

flexural rigidity

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

This measure of a material’s resistance to bending is calculated by multiplying the material’s weight per unit area by the cube of its bending length.

flexibility

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

1. The ability to be flexed or bowed repeatedly without rupturing. 2. A term relating to the hand of fabric, referring to ease of bending and ranging from pliable (high) to stiff ...

flexural fatigue

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

A physical property expressed by the number of times a material can be bent on itself through a prescribed angle before it ruptures or loses its ability to recover.