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Random sheared:
A carpet texture created by lightly shearing (shaving off ) either level loop or high-low loop so only some of the tufts are sheared. Shearing gives a cut and loop texture.

Repeat:
The distance from a point in a design in a patterned carpet to a point where the identical pattern appears again, measured lengthwise and widthwise in the carpet. In matching the pattern, there will inevitably be some waste of carpet in order to obtain the best possible side match-whether it is a drop or set match pattern.