tessitura

Definitions of tessitura
  1. noun
    creating fabric
  2. noun
    a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing
    synonyms: fabbrica, impianto, industria, manifattura, opificio, stabilimento
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    fonderia
    factory where metal castings are produced
    segheria
    a mill for dressing logs and lumber
    cartiera
    a mill where paper is manufactured
    acciaieria
    a factory where steel is made
    armeria, arsenale
    a place where arms are manufactured
    cotonificio
    a textile mill for making cotton textiles
    laminatoio
    steel mill where metal is rolled into sheets and bars
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    fabbrica, impianto, industria, manifattura, opificio, stabilimento
    buildings for carrying on industrial labor
  3. noun
    machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing
    synonyms: follatrice, macinacaffè, macinino, mulino, rettificatrice
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    macinapepe
    a mill for grinding pepper
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    macchinario
    machines or machine systems collectively
  4. noun
    a nonmetallic bivalent element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless nonflammable diatomic gas; constitutes 21 percent of the atmosphere by volume; the most abundant element in the earth's crust
    synonyms: idrossido, liceale, ossigeno
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    elemento, elemento chimico
    any of the more than 100 known substances (of which 92 occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter
    gas
    a fluid in the gaseous state having neither independent shape nor volume and being able to expand indefinitely
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