Resembling cloth in appearance, texture, or properties; having qualities similar to woven fabric.
From cloth + -like (resembling or similar to). A compound formed by standard English word-formation rules, appearing primarily in technical or scientific descriptions of materials.
In modern materials science, 'clothlike' describes fabrics made from non-traditional fibers like metallic threads, plastic sheets, or even paper—the term lets scientists compare new materials to the familiar reference point of traditional woven cloth.
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