texture
See also: texturé
Contents
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Middle French texture, borrowed from Latin textura (“a weaving, web, texture, structure”), from textus, past participle of texere (“to weave”). See text.
PronunciationEdit
Audio (US) (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ˈtɛkstʃə(ɹ)/, /ˈtɛkʃtʃə(ɹ)/
- Rhymes: -ɛkstʃə(ɹ)
NounEdit
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.
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
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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VerbEdit
texture (third-person singular simple present textures, present participle texturing, simple past and past participle textured)
Further readingEdit
- texture in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- texture in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle French texture, borrowed from Latin textura (“a weaving, web, texture, structure”), from textus, past participle of texere (“to weave”). See text.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
texture f (plural textures)
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “texture” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).