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tex⋅ture

[teks-cher]

noun, verb, -tured, -tur⋅ing.

–noun

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.

Fine Arts.

a.	the characteristic visual and tactile quality of the surface of a work of art resulting from the way in which the materials are used.

b.	the imitation of the tactile quality of represented objects.

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.

–verb (used with object)

9.	to give texture or a particular texture to.

10.	to make by or as if by weaving.

Origin:
1400–50; late ME < L textūra web, equiv. to text(us) (ptp. of texere to weave) + -ūra -ure

Related forms:

tex⋅tur⋅al, adjective

tex⋅tur⋅al⋅ly, adverb

tex⋅ture⋅less, adjective

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tex·ture (těks'chər)

A structure of interwoven fibers or other elements.
The distinctive physical composition or structure of something, especially with respect to the size, shape, and arrangment of its parts: the texture of sandy soil; the texture of cooked fish.
1. The appearance and feel of a surface: the smooth texture of soap.
2. A rough or grainy surface quality: Brick walls give a room texture.
Distinctive or identifying quality or character: "an intensely meditative poet [who] conveys the religious and cultural texture of time spent in a Benedictine monastery" (New York Times).
The quality given to a piece of art, literature, or music by the interrelationship of its elements: "The baroque influence in his music is clear here, with the harmonic complexity and texture" (Rachelle Roe).

tr.v. tex·tured, tex·tur·ing, tex·tures
To give texture to, especially to impart desirable surface characteristics to: texture a printing plate by lining and stippling it.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin textūra, from textus, past participle of texere, to weave; see text.]
tex'tur·al adj., tex'tur·al·ly adv., tex'tured adj.

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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.

Texture

Tex"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Textured; p. pr. & vb. n. Texturing.] To form a texture of or with; to interweave. [R.]

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Language Translation for : texture

Spanish: textura,

German: die Beschaffenheit,

Japanese: きめ

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texture

c.1425, "network, structure," from M.Fr., from L. textura "web, texture, structure," from stem of textere "to weave," from PIE base *tek- "to make" (cf. Skt. taksati "he fashions, constructs," taksan "carpenter;" Avestan taša "ax, hatchet," thwaxš- "be busy;" O.Pers. taxš- "be active;" Gk. tekton "carpenter," tekhne "art;" O.C.S. tesla "ax, hatchet;" Lith. tasau "to carve;" O.Ir. tal "cooper's ax;" O.H.G. dahs, Ger. Dachs "badger," lit. "builder;" Hittite taksh- "to join, unite, build"). Meaning "structural character" is recorded from 1660.

texture tex·ture (těks'chər)
n.
The composition or structure of a tissue or organ.

tex'tured adj.

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.

texture graphics
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.
(1995-05-11)

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