- having a dull or lusterless surface: matte paint; a matte complexion; a photograph with a matte finish.
- a dull or dead surface, often slightly roughened, as on metals, paint, paper, or glass.
- a tool for producing such a surface.
- an unfinished metallic product of the smelting of certain sulfide ores, especially those of copper.
- matte shot.
- to finish with a matte surface.
- a mass of timber caved beneath overburden so as to cushion the fall of the overburden and separate it from mineral to be extracted beneath.
- an impure fused material consisting of metal sulphides produced during the smelting of a sulphide ore
- a mask used to blank out part of an image so that another image can be superimposed
