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matte is a noun, verb and adjective meaning "a mixture of sulfides that forms when sulfide metal ores are smelted". It carries 4 recorded senses.
a mixture of sulfides that forms when sulfide metal ores are smelted
the property of having little or no contrast; lacking highlights or gloss
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for matte come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.