texture
See also: texturé
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French texture, borrowed from Latin textura (“a weaving, web, texture, structure”), from textus, past participle of texere (“to weave”). See text.
Pronunciation
Audio (US) (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ˈtɛkstʃə(ɹ)/, /ˈtɛkʃtʃə(ɹ)/
- Rhymes: -ɛkstʃə(ɹ)
Noun
texture (countable and uncountable, plural textures)
- The feel or shape of a surface or substance; the smoothness, roughness, softness, etc. of something.
- The beans had a grainy, gritty texture in her mouth.
- (art) The quality given to a work of art by the composition and interaction of its parts.
- The piece of music had a mainly smooth texture.
- (computer graphics) An image applied to a polygon to create the appearance of a surface.
- 2004, Will Smith, Maximum PC Guide to Building a Dream PC (page 97)
- The videocard is responsible for drawing every polygon, texture, and particle effect in every game you play.
- 2004, Will Smith, Maximum PC Guide to Building a Dream PC (page 97)
- (obsolete) The act or art of weaving.
- Sir Thomas Browne
- Skins, although a natural habit unto all before the invention of texture, was something more unto Adam.
- Sir Thomas Browne
- (obsolete) Something woven; a woven fabric; a web.
- Thomson
- Others, apart far in the grassy dale, / Or roughening waste, their humble texture weave.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)
- Thomson
- (biology, obsolete) A tissue.
Translations
feel or shape of a surface or substance
art: quality produced by interaction of elements
computer graphics: image applied to a polygon
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Verb
texture (third-person singular simple present textures, present participle texturing, simple past and past participle textured)
Further reading
- texture in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- texture in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
French
Etymology
From Middle French texture, borrowed from Latin textura (“a weaving, web, texture, structure”), from textus, past participle of texere (“to weave”). See text.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɛkstyʁ/
Related terms
Further reading
- “texture” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
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