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CROSS MACHINE DIRECTION [1 record]

Record 1 1991-03-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tools and Equipment (Textile Industries)
DEF

The direction perpendicular to the machine or manufactured direction.

CONT

Warp yarns lie in the machine direction and filling yarns are inserted in the cross machine direction.

OBS

Machine direction: In textiles, the direction in a machine-made fabric parallel to the direction of movement the fabric followed in the manufacturing machine (synonym, lengthwise).

OBS

Transverse direction: The deprecated term for cross-machine direction.

OBS

woof: The deprecated term for cross-machine direction.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage et équipement (Industries du textile)
DEF

Direction perpendiculaire au sens production.

OBS

Sens de production : direction d'avancement de l'étoffe pendant sa production.

OBS

(...) le non tissé peut théoriquement résister dans toutes les directions alors que le tissé résiste principalement dans la direction de fabrication et dans la direction perpendiculaire à cette dernière.

Spanish

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