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Needlefelting:
- see needlepunching.
Last referenced in: The world nonwovens industry: part 3 -- ten smaller producers, 1st quarter 2001 (Technical Textile Markets Issue 44)
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Needlepunching:
- a process for making a nonwoven textile in which a continuous mat of randomly laid fibres or filaments is entangled with barbed needles. This causes matting and the production of a "felt" textile.
Last referenced in: Global technical textiles business update, 1st quarter 2014 (Technical Textile Markets Issue 96)
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Needling:
- see needlepunching.
Last referenced in: Global technical textiles business update, 3rd quarter 2011 (Technical Textile Markets Issue 86)
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Nep:
- a small knot of entangled fibres commonly regarded as a fault but sometimes introduced as an effect.
Last referenced in: Global technical textiles business update, 2nd quarter 2007 (Technical Textile Markets Issue 69)
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Nip:
- a line or area of contact or proximity between two contiguous surfaces which move so as to compress and/or control the velocity of textile material passed between them.
Last referenced in: Nanotechnology-Based Technical Textiles in Consumer Products (Technical Textile Markets Issue 64)
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Nm:
- a unit denoting metric count, and an indirect (length per unit weight) measure of linear density. The Nm value is the number of 1 km lengths of yarn weighing 1 kg.
Last referenced in: Apparel business update, 3rd quarter 2008 (Global Apparel Markets Issue 3)
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Noil:
- shorter fibres separated from longer fibres in combing.
Last referenced in: Survey of the European yarn fairs for spring/summer 2015 (Textile Outlook International Issue 168)
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Nonwoven:
- (according to ISO 9092:1988) a manufactured sheet, web or batt of directionally or randomly orientated fibres, bonded by friction and/or cohesion and/or adhesion, excluding paper and products which are woven, knitted, tufted, stitchbonded incorporating binding yarns or filaments, or felted by wet-milling, whether or not additionally needled.
Last referenced in: Product developments and innovations in the home textiles market, April 2014 (Textile Outlook International Issue 168)
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Nonwoven geotextile:
- a geotextile in the form of a manufactured sheet, web or batt of directionally or randomly orientated fibres, filaments or other elements, mechanically and/or thermally and/or chemically bonded.
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Novoloid:
- a manufactured fibre which contains at least 85% by weight of a cross-linked novolac (phenolic resin).
Last referenced in: Performance apparel markets: flame resistant fibres and fabrics, 1st quarter 2011 (Performance Apparel Markets Issue 36)
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