Glossary
Textile Dyeing Machine Operator Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential textile dyeing machine operator terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key textile dyeing machine operator vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in textile dyeing machine operator training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- Defect
- Flaw in product.
- Denier
- Fiber thickness measure.
- Disperse dye
- Dye for polyester.
- Doff
- Remove full packages or rolls.
- Dye lot
- Batch of one color.
- Fabric
- Woven or knit textile.
- Fixation
- Dye bonding to fiber.
- Light booth
- Standard lighting box.
- Liquor ratio
- Water to fabric ratio.
- Metamerism
- Color changes under different light.
- Reactive dye
- Dye for cotton.
- Scouring
- Cleaning fibers.
- Shade
- Color variation.
- Spectrophotometer
- Measures color.
- Yarn
- Spun fibers.
Practice these terms
Test yourself with the free Textile Dyeing Machine Operator practice test: it includes vocabulary questions built from this list. For a complete course, see Textile Dyeing Machine Operator training.
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