matte
A decorative border around a picture used to inset and center the contents of a frame.
Example
“The image is a perfect square of 8 cm (with white matte border the total dimensions are 14 cm tall by 11 cm wide).”
Other meanings
A background, often painted or created with computers
“Matte painting is a tool that filmmakers can use to create a scene that is impossible to achieve with conventional cinematographic means.”
The molten metal sulfide phases typically formed during smelting of copper, nickel, and other base metals.
A kind of
- mixture
Related words
- closed matte
- hard matte
- open matte
- soft matte
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “matte” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.