texture
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Middle French texture, borrowed from Latin textura (“a weaving, web, texture, structure”), from texere (“to weave”), past participle textus; see text.
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
texture (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,
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Translations [edit]
feel or shape of a surface or substance
computer graphics: image applied to a polygon
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Verb [edit]
texture (third-person singular simple present textures, present participle texturing, simple past and past participle textured)
External links [edit]
- texture in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- texture in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Middle French texture, from Latin textura (“a weaving, web, texture, structure”), from texere (“to weave”), past participle textus; see text.
Noun [edit]
texture f (plural textures)
