texture
Etymology
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Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French texture, borrowed from Latin textūra, from textus, past participle of texere ("to weave").
Pronunciation- (America) IPA: /ˈtɛkst͡ʃə(ɹ)/, /ˈtɛkʃt͡ʃə(ɹ)/
texture
- 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 homophonic 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.
- 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.
- (obsolete) Something woven; a woven fabric; a web.
- a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Spring”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC ↗:
- Others, apart far in the grassy dale, / Or roughening waste, their humble texture weave.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC ↗:
- Of richest texture spread
- (biology, obsolete) A tissue.
- French: texture
texture (textures, present participle texturing; simple past and past participle textured)
Translations- German: texturieren (chiefly computer graphics)
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