#sizing

• Afuera — A term of Spanish origin, meaning 'outside' or 'out', which recently entered international and Romanian political and media jargon, associated with a radical style of administrative reform or public spending cuts. Often used as a slogan or symbolic exclamation, the word describes the sudden elimination of institutions, ministries, or positions deemed redundant.
• Starching — The act of starching and its result; a technological process of finishing textile materials by impregnating them with a starch paste or suspension, followed by drying and calendering. This structural operation improves the physical-mechanical properties of the fabrics, increasing their apparent density, resistance to frictional wear, and their ability to repel dust particles suspended in the air.
• To size (textiles) — To glue, join, or consolidate two surfaces or threads using an adhesive, a binder, or a special sizing paste; to subject to an industrial sizing or gluing process. In the textile and yarn processing industries, the term describes applying a protective layer of glue to enhance tensile and friction resistance during weaving.
• Sizing — An industrial or artisanal technological operation consisting of coating textile materials, paper, or yarns with a thin layer of glue, adhesive, or special sizing agent; the result of this action. The process considerably increases structural resistance to tension and mechanical friction, reducing porosity and smoothing the processed surface prior to final finishing.
• Sizing operation — The act of sizing or gluing; the technical process through which a gluey substance, an adhesive, or a chemical sizing agent is applied to a substrate to modify its physical properties. In textile and paper manufacturing, sizing is the essential stage that ensures temporary or permanent rigidity and partial impermeability of the treated fibers.
• Sizing agent — A chemical substance or macromolecular colloidal preparation (based on starch, gelatin, synthetic resins, or cellulose derivatives) used in the industrial or household finishing of fabrics; it also defines the protective film resulting from applying this substance, serving to provide textile materials with structural stiffness, luster, smoothness, and resistance to dirt or wrinkling.
• Starch — To subject a textile material, fabric, or shirt collar to the finishing process by applying a layer of sizing agent or starch. This technical or household procedure aims to smooth the surface, temporarily stiffen the structural fibers, and impart a distinct aesthetic luster, while increasing resistance to wrinkling and dirt.
• Textile finishing — The totality of chemical or mechanical technological operations executed in the final stage of textile production to provide fabrics with the desired commercial appearance, enhanced durability, and superior tactile qualities. This structural process includes sizing, calendering, shearing, or applying waterproofing treatments.
• Fabric sizing — The act of starching and its result; a technical, industrial, or household process through which a fabric or a clothing item is treated with a sizing agent or starch. This structural finishing operation provides textile fibers with a controlled stiffness, a distinct aesthetic luster, and enhanced protection against wrinkling, while facilitating the subsequent ironing process.
• Female starcher — A skilled female worker in a textile or garment factory who executes the operations of starching, sizing, and finishing fabrics or clothing components. As an adjective, it represents the feminine plural form of the word 'apretor', defining industrial substances, machinery, or installations designed for stiffening, impregnating, or final processing of yarns and materials.
• Textile starcher — A skilled worker in a textile enterprise who conducts and monitors installations for finishing, starching, and treating materials with sizing agents. As an adjective, it describes a mechanical device, industrial machinery, chemical substance, or macromolecular treatment designed exclusively for the structural process of stiffening and improving fabric quality.
• Fabric sizing — A final technological finishing operation for textile materials, consisting of applying a thin layer of sizing agent or starch; it also defines the chemical colloidal mixture used for this purpose or the resulting protective film on the fabric surface. This structural process serves to provide the cloth with controlled stiffness, a pleasant hand, luster, waterproofness, or wrinkle resistance according to commercial standards.
• Autofit — A software function or algorithm for the automatic resizing of structural elements (such as table columns and rows, text boxes, or images) to perfectly fit the size of the displayed content or screen boundaries. In spreadsheet applications, this command prevents data truncation by dynamically widening or narrowing the available space.