matte
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1. matte - Noun
2. matte - Adjective
3. matte - Verb
4. matte - Adjective Satellite
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A partly reduced copper sulphide, obtained by alternately roasting and melting copper ore in separating the metal from associated iron ores, and called coarse metal, fine metal, etc., according to the grade of fineness. On the exterior it is dark brown or black, but on a fresh surface is yellow or bronzy in color.
A dead or dull finish, as in gilding where the gold leaf is not burnished, or in painting where the surface is purposely deprived of gloss.
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The fabric felted up after several washes
flat wall paint
a photograph with a matte finish
Afterwards, the parts of the body that had or had not yet gone through the gate (depending of the side of filming) were obliterated with a digital matte - a process that removes unwanted components from an individual frame or sequence of frames.
Alternatively, a hard matte in the printing or shooting stages may be used to mask off those areas while filming for composition purposes, but an aperture plate is still used to block off the appropriate areas in the theater.
All of the matte colours translated well onto the eye rather than just looking great in the pan but dull on the skin (which is often the case with bright eyeshadow shades) and they were creamy enough to blend out easily without being chalky.