Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several synthetic textile fibers produced by forcing a cellulose solution through fine spinnerets and solidifying the resulting filaments.
- noun A fabric so woven or knit.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A beam or ray.
- noun The radius of area of action (of a fort, a ship, an array, or a fleet).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Ray; beam.
- noun A synthetic fiber, made of thin filaments of regenerated cellulose, extruded from a solution of
viscose . Called alsoviscose fiber andviscose rayon fiber . - noun a textile fabric made from rayon{1}.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative spelling of
raion . - noun A manufactured
regenerated cellulosic fiber . - noun obsolete A
ray orbeam .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a synthetic silklike fabric
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Also known to many designers as “art silk,” rayon is a semi-synthetic fabric that is a great alternative to silk.
Decorating White Spaces by Adding a Delicate Touch of Color 2009
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The one major drawback of rayon is that it will wrinkle so it is better to use it on a surface that won’t have a lot of people lounging on it.
Decorating White Spaces by Adding a Delicate Touch of Color 2009
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The same shallow thinking can be applied to rayon, which is a generic term for nearly any natural cellulose fiber that's processed to make fabrics.
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The same shallow thinking can be applied to rayon, which is a generic term for nearly any natural cellulose fiber that's processed to make fabrics.
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No, it was really easier work on the nylon than it was on the rayon, because the rayon was a soft yarn and fussed up.
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US: Retailers warned for mislabelling rayon as "bamboo"
Daily apparel and textile news and comment - from just-style.com 2010
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They were typically made of silk or artificial silk (now known as rayon), and after 1939 with nylon.
WN.com - Articles related to Princess Beatrice steps out in racy Lily Allen style suspender tights 2010
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They were typically made of silk or artificial silk (now known as rayon), and after 1939 with nylon.
WN.com - Articles related to Princess Beatrice steps out in racy Lily Allen style suspender tights 2010
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We ran a post back in 2007 asking the question Is Bamboo Clothing Truly Green?, where we referenced the chemical solvent used to make viscose (also known as rayon) from raw bamboo material.
TreeHugger 2010
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We ran a post back in 2007 asking the question Is Bamboo Clothing Truly Green?, where we referenced the chemical solvent used to make viscose (also known as rayon) from raw bamboo material.
TreeHugger 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word rayon
"The radius of area of action (of a fort, a ship, an array, or a fleet)."
--Cent. Dict.
August 15, 2012