Associations to the word «Moire»
Noun
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Wiktionary
MOIRE, noun. Originally, a fine textile fabric made of the hair of an Asiatic goat.
MOIRE, noun. Any textile fabric to which a watered appearance is given.
MOIRÉ, noun. A pattern that emerges when two grids are superimposed over one another, sometimes unintended or undesirable in many applications such as in weaving and screenprinting.
MOIRÉ, noun. A fabric, often silk, which has a watery or wavelike appearance.
MOIRÉ, verb. (transitive) To give a watered or clouded appearance to (a surface).
MOIRÉ PATTERN, noun. An optical effect formed when one family of curves is superposed on another, the lines of the overlapping figures crossing at an ange less than about 45°; the moiré lines are then the locus of the points of intersection
MOIRÉ PATTERNS, noun. Plural of moiré pattern
Dictionary definition
MOIRE, noun. Silk fabric with a wavy surface pattern.
MOIRE, adjective. (of silk fabric) having a wavelike pattern.
Wise words
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -
in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us
to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions
all of a color.