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
- 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
Texture refers to the properties held and sensations caused by the external surface of objects received through the sense of touch. Texture is sometimes used to describe the feel of non-tactile sensations. Texture can also be termed as a pattern that has been scaled down (especially in case of two dimensional non-tactile textures) where the individual elements that go on to make the pattern not distinguishable.
Texture may also refer to:
- Texture (painting), feel of the canvas based on the paint used and its method of application
- Texture (music), a way to describe the overall sound created by the interaction of aspects of a piece of music
- Texture (crystalline), the property of a material's individual crystallites sharing some degree of orientation
- Texture (geology), the physical appearance or character of a rock
- Texture (computer graphics), a bitmap image applied to a surface in computer graphics
- Texture (food), the way food feels in a person's mouth
- Textures (band), a metal band from the Netherlands
- Soil texture, describes the relative proportion of grain sizes of a soil or any unconsolidated material
- Texture (cosmology), a type of theoretical topological defect in the structure of spacetime.
- Character structure, various life experiences resulting in the "texture" of one's character]]
- Texture (roads), road surface characteristics with waves shorter than road roughness
- Textures (software), a well known software program to typeset TeX and LaTeX on Macintosh computers
texture in Czech: Textura
texture in German: Textur
texture in Spanish: Textura
texture in French: Texture
texture in Low German: Textur
texture in Polish: Tekstura
texture in Slovak: Textúra
texture in Swedish: Textur
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