pretexture

English

Noun

pretexture (plural pretextures)

1. (obsolete) pretext
   • 1624, Edward Sutton, Anthropophagus: the Man-eater, page 34:

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

2. A texture that is applied beforehand.
   • 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:

     Pore formation did not occur at the ridges of the honeycomb cells while NPs were grouped at the center of the hexagonal Al pretextures.

Verb

pretexture (third-person singular simple present pretextures, present participle pretexturing, simple past and past participle pretextured)

1. To apply a texture beforehand.
   • 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:

     However, it is difficult to pretexture large samples because they require a high imprinting pressure.