pretexture

plural pretextures

1. obsoletepretext

   Now we haue ftudyed both textures of words, and pretextures of manners to shrowd dishonesty.

   1624, Edward Sutton, Anthropophagus: the Man-eater, page 34

2. 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 Physical Society

present singular third person pretextures · participle present pretexturing · participle past pretextured · past pretextured

1. 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 mold”, in Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology, volume 26