tex⋅ture
[teks-cher]
noun, verb, -tured, -tur⋅ing.| 1. | the visual and esp. tactile quality of a surface: rough texture. |
| 2. | the characteristic structure of the interwoven or intertwined threads, strands, or the like, that make up a textile fabric: coarse texture. |
| 3. | the characteristic physical structure given to a material, an object, etc., by the size, shape, arrangement, and proportions of its parts: soil of a sandy texture; a cake with a heavy texture. |
| 4. | an essential or characteristic quality; essence. |
| 5. | Fine Arts.
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| 6. | the quality given, as to a musical or literary work, by the combination or interrelation of parts or elements. |
| 7. | a rough or grainy surface quality. |
| 8. | anything produced by weaving; woven fabric. |
| 9. | to give texture or a particular texture to. |
| 10. | to make by or as if by weaving. |
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Texture
Tex"ture\, n. [L. textura, fr. texere, textum, to weave: cf. F. texture. See Text.]1. The act or art of weaving. [R.] --Sir T. Browne. 2. That which woven; a woven fabric; a web. --Milton. Others, apart far in the grassy dale, Or roughening waste, their humble texture weave. --Thomson. 3. The disposition or connection of threads, filaments, or other slender bodies, interwoven; as, the texture of cloth or of a spider's web. 4. The disposition of the several parts of any body in connection with each other, or the manner in which the constituent parts are united; structure; as, the texture of earthy substances or minerals; the texture of a plant or a bone; the texture of paper; a loose or compact texture. 5. (Biol.) A tissue. See Tissue.Cite This Source
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texture tex·ture (těks'chər)
n.
The composition or structure of a tissue or organ.
tex'tured adj.
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| texture (těks'chər) Pronunciation Key
The general physical appearance of a rock, especially with respect to the size, shape, size variability, and geometric arrangement of its mineral crystals (for igneous and metamorphic rocks) and of its constituent elements (for sedimentary rocks). A sandstone that forms as part of an eolian (wind-blown) deposit, for example, has a texture that reflects its small, rounded sand grains of uniform size, while a sandstone that formed as part of a fluvial deposit has a texture reflecting the presence of grains of varying sizes, with some more rounded than others. |
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A measure of the variation of the intensity of a surface, quantifying properties such as smoothness, coarseness and regularity. It's often used as a region descriptor in image analysis and computer vision.
The three principal approaches used to describe texture are statistical, structural and spectral. Statistical techniques characterise texture by the statistical properties of the grey levels of the points comprising a surface. Typically, these properties are computed from the grey level histogram or grey level cooccurrence matrix of the surface.
Structural techniques characterise texture as being composed of simple primitives called "texels" (texture elements), that are regularly arranged on a surface according to some rules. These rules are formally defined by grammars of various types.
Spectral techiques are based on properties of the Fourier spectrum and describe global periodicity of the grey levels of a surface by identifying high energy peaks in the spectrum.
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