A Topical Dictionary: Search for texture

Dictionary Results For "texture" [?]/[OPML]

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English

Pronunciation

(US)
- IPA: /ˈtɛkstʃər/
An audio transcript can be found at en-us-texture.ogg

Etymology

From #French|texture.

Noun

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.
The number of layers or instruments heard in a sound.
:The piece of music had a mainly smooth texture.
(computer graphics) an image applied to a polygon to create the appearance of a surface

Translations

Chinese: 纹理
Dutch: textuur
French: #French|texture

Icelandic: áferð
Spanish: textura

Verb

to create or apply a texture
:''Drag the trowel through the plaster to texture the wall.

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French

Etymology

From textura.

Noun

#Noun|texture

fa:texture fr:texture io:texture id:texture it:texture hu:texture ru:texture fi:texture ta:texture te:texture vi:texture zh:texture

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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.
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2. That which woven; a woven fabric; a web. --Milton.
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Others, apart far in the grassy dale,
Or roughening waste, their humble texture weave.
--Thomson.
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3. The disposition or connection of threads, filaments, or
other slender bodies, interwoven; as, the texture of cloth
or of a spider's web.
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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.
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5. (Biol.) A tissue. See Tissue.
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WordNet texture
n 1: the feel of a surface or a fabric; "the wall had a smooth
texture"
2: the essential quality of something; "the texture of
Neapolitan life"
3: the musical pattern created by parts being played or sung
together; "then another melodic line is added to the
texture"
4: the characteristic appearance of a surface having a tactile
quality

Moby Dictionary
anatomy , arabesque , architectonics , architecture , arrangement ,
basketry , basketwork , being , braiding , build , building ,
cancellation , character , cloth , composition , configuration ,
conformation , consistency , constitution , construction , creation ,
cross-hatching , crossing-out , drapery , enlacement , entwinement ,
entwining , essentiality , etoffe , fabric , fabrication , fashion ,
fashioning , features , feel , felt , fiber , filigree , forging , form ,
format , formation , frame , framework , fret , fretwork , getup , goods ,
grain , grate , grating , grid , gridiron , grille , grillwork , hachure ,
hatching , interknitting , interlacement , interlacery , interlacing ,
intertexture , interthreading , intertieing , intertwinement ,
intertwining , intertwisting , interweavement , interweaving ,
knitting , lace , lacery , lacework , lacing , lattice , latticework ,
make , makeup , making , manufacture , material , mesh , meshes ,
meshwork , mold , molding , napery , nature , net , netting , network ,
organic structure , organism , organization , pattern , patterning ,
physique , plaiting , plan , plexure , plexus , production , raddle , rag ,
reticle , reticulation , reticule , reticulum , riddle , scheme , screen ,
screening , setup , shape , shaping , sieve , silk , structure ,
structuring , stuff , substance , surface , tectonics , textile ,
textile fabric , tissu , tissue , tracery , trellis , trelliswork ,
twining , twisting , warp and woof , warpage , wattle , weave , weaving ,
web , webbing , webwork , weft , weftage , wicker , wickerwork , woof ,
wool , wreathing

FOLDOC texture

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)