See also: texturé

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Etymology edit

Borrowed from Middle French texture, borrowed from Latin textūra (a weaving, web, texture, structure), from textus, past participle of texere (to weave). See text. Doublet of tessitura.

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  • (file)
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈtɛkst͡ʃə(ɹ)/, /ˈtɛkʃt͡ʃə(ɹ)/
  • Rhymes: -ɛkstʃə(ɹ)

Noun edit

texture (countable and uncountable, plural textures)

  1. 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.
  2. (art) The quality given to a work of art by the composition and interaction of its parts.
    The piece of music had a mainly homophonic texture.
  3. (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.
  4. (obsolete) The act or art of weaving.
    • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: [], 2nd edition, London: [] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, [], →OCLC:
      Skins, although a natural habit unto all before the invention of texture, was something more unto Adam.
  5. (obsolete) Something woven; a woven fabric; a web.
  6. (biology, obsolete) A tissue.

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texture (third-person singular simple present textures, present participle texturing, simple past and past participle textured)

  1. To create or apply a texture.
    Drag the trowel through the plaster to texture the wall.

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Etymology edit

Inherited from Middle French texture, borrowed from Latin textūra (a weaving, web, texture, structure), from textus, past participle of texere (to weave). See text.

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Noun edit

texture f (plural textures)

  1. texture

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Borrowed from English texture.

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texture f (uncountable)

  1. texture

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textūre

  1. vocative masculine singular of textūrus