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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
Audio (US) (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ˈtɛkstʃə(ɹ)/, /ˈtɛkʃtʃə(ɹ)/
- Rhymes: -ɛkstʃə(ɹ)
Noun[edit]
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.
- (arts) 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.
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Translations[edit]
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[edit]
texture (third-person singular simple present textures, present participle texturing, simple past and past participle textured)
Further reading[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, borrowed from Latin textura (“a weaving, web, texture, structure”), from textus, past participle of texere (“to weave”). See text.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
texture f (plural textures)
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “texture” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin[edit]
Participle[edit]
textūre
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