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tow meaning

EN[təʊ] [toʊ] [-əʊ]
WTow
  • In the composites industry, a tow is an untwisted bundle of continuous filaments, and it refers to man-made fibres, particularly carbon fibres (also called graphite).
  • Tows are designated by the number of fibers they contain. For example, a 12K tow contains about 12,000 fibres.
  • In the textile industry, a tow (rhymes with cow, unless referring to cellulose acetate which sounds like toe) is a coarse, broken fibre, removed during processing flax, hemp, or jute.
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tow
  • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
    1. Nouns
      • Countable nouns
      • Verbs
        • Transitive verbs
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      Source: Wiktionary

      Meaning of tow for the defined word.

      Grammatically, this word "tow" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, a transitive verb.
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