Texture

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  147 Moby Thesaurus words for "texture":
     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
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [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 {grammar}s 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)