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Definition: Texture |
TextureNoun1. 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. (fine arts) the characteristic appearance of a surface having a tactile quality. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "texture" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Texture |
Building & Civil Engineering | The characteristic of a road surface in which the texture contains asperities affecting tyre contact but not the comfort of vehicle movement. Source: European Union. (references) |
Fine Arts | The characteristic effect of fine detail on the general appearance of an aerial photograph. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | The structural character of wood as revealed by touch or reaction to cutting tools. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Characteristics of the solid or rheological state of a product, the combination of which can stimulate the mechanical receptors during tasting, particularly those located in the mouth. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Metallurgy | Macroscopic relationship existing between the various shapes and sizes of pores and grains in a refractory product. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | The general physical appearance or character of a rock, including the geometric aspects of, and the mutual relations among, its component particles or crystals; e.g., the size, shape, and arrangement of the constituent elements of a sedimentary rock, or the crystallinity, granularity, and fabric of the constituent elements of an igneous rock. The term is applied to the smaller (megascopic or microscopic) features as seen on a smooth surface of a homogeneous rock or mineral aggregate. The term structure is generally used for the larger features of a rock. The two terms should not be used synonymously, although certain textural features may parallel major structural features. Confusion may arise because in some languages, e.g., French, the usage of texture and structure are the reverse of the English usage. CF:structure. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Texture mapping is a method of adding realism to a computer-generated graphic. An image (the texture) is added (mapped) to a simpler shape that is generated in the scene, like a decal pasted to a flat surface. This reduces the amount of computing needed to create the shapes and textures in the scene. For instance, a sphere may be generated and a face texture mapped, to remove the need for processing the shape of the nose and eyes.As graphics cards become more powerful, in theory texture mapping becomes less necessary and 3D rendering becomes more commonplace. Practically, however, the trend has recently been towards larger and more varied texture images, together with increasingly sophisticated ways to combine multiple textures for different aspects of the same object. (This is more significant in realtime graphics, where the number of textures that may be displayed simultaneously is a function of the available graphics memory.)
A simple texture mapping can be coded simply taking the position of each pixel in the interested object and re-mapping it on the texture image using linear interpolation.
This algorithm actually works quite well, but can suffer from various problem when objects are small, or with odd angles of view. More sophisticated tecniques (mipmaps, bilinear filtering, trilinear filtering) have been, and probably more will be, developed to enhance the image quality.
See also
- Edwin Catmull
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Texture mapping."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| TEXEL | English | TEXture ELement | Computer - Computer - (RFC 1824) |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Mixture | Alloy, amalgam; brass, chowchow, pewter; magma, half-and-half, melange, tertium quid, miscellany, ambigu, medley, mess, hotchpot, pasticcio, patchwork, odds and ends, all sorts; jumble; (disorder); salad, sauce, mash, omnium gatherum, gallimaufry, olla-podrida, olio, salmagundi, potpourri, Noah's ark, caldron texture, mingled yarn; mosaic; (variegation). |
Ornament | Pattern, diaper, powdering, paneling, graining, pargeting; detail; repousse (convexity); texture; richness; tracery, molding, fillet, listel, strapwork, coquillage, flourish, fleur-de-lis, arabesque, fret, anthemion; egg and tongue, egg and dart; astragal, zigzag, acanthus, cartouche; pilaster; (projection); bead, beading; champleve ware, cloisonne ware; frost work, Moresque, Morisco, tooling. |
Roughness | Noun: roughness; Adjective: tooth, grain, texture, ripple; asperity, rugosity, salebrosity, corrugation, nodosity; arborescence; pilosity. |
Texture | Texture, surface texture; intertexture, contexture; tissue, grain, web, surface; warp and woof, warp and weft; tooth, nap. (roughness); flatness (smoothness); fineness of grain; coarseness of grain, dry goods. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Texture |
| Specialty definitions using "texture": cell texture, comb texture, core texture, crackled texture, crystallographic texture ♦ emulsion texture, eutectic texture, eutectoid texture, exsolution texture ♦ fluidal texture, framboidal texture ♦ granular texture, granule texture ♦ hypidiomorphic texture ♦ knitted texture ♦ lithographic texture ♦ multi-level texture interpolation, mutual boundary texture ♦ oolitic texture ♦ pellet texture, procedural texture, pseudoeutectic texture ♦ relict texture, reticulate texture, rim texture, runic texture ♦ SOIL TEXTURE, spinifex texture ♦ triangular texture, tubercle texture. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "texture": Weftage. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Texture" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (texture). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Gives it a little texture. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Texture of Time (2003) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | A road through the live oak forest on Cabretta. The shadows weave a wonderful texture on the road surface. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Footprints in the sand. A Great Blue Heron has left its tracks here along the river. Compare the sand texture in this picture to the following image. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Detail "Of the curious texture of Sea-weeds." In: "Micrographia, or, Some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses....", by Robert Hooke. 1667. Call Number QH271 .H66 1667 Scheme IX. Figure 3. P. 93. Credit: Treasures of the Library. |  | Asmine 85 has been rated as high or higher in aroma, taste, and texture than imported Thai Jasmine RICE, which fetches premium prices in the U.S. Credit: USDA. |
 | Food scientist William Windham analyzes texture data for rice samples separated into groups for light (L) or deep milling (D), based on the scores for partial least squares factors 1 and 2. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Keith Weller.. |  | Though the pears pictured do not have a texture suitable for good eating, scientists at the ARS Appalachian Fruit Research Station in Kearneysville, West Virginia, will combine their fire blight-resistant qualities with other lines possessing traits sought in commercial pear varieties. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Keith Weller.. |
 | End of log, showing the tree rings and the texture of the wood. Credit: Phil Carroll. |  | M. Gordon, residence on Anchorage Pl., Hewlett Bay Park, Long Island. Texture panel, to statue. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Texture" by Giselle Aragão Commentary: "Paper texture of trash can." | "Sting texture" by Sean Sullivan Commentary: "Just a shot of a wall texture." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Mysterious texture created by arpeggiated harpsichord and synthesized ambient sounds. | | Synthesized low aerophones creating an eerie and clam texture. |
| A slow blues style flute melody with a floating ambient texture. | | Thick synthesized texture with guitar playing in a new age or world music style. |
| Staccato bass with melodic flute and quena creating a safari ambient texture. | | Piano arpeggios with sustained strings creating an Island texture used by film composers. |
| Light texture with hand clapping, cymbals, and arpeggiated electric bass line. | | Layered percussion and guitar creating a world music texture or sound. |
| Highly active spacy texture with staccato melody and a pitch bend. | | Crescendoing texture of synthesizers and strings. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | It takes on a soft, jelly-like texture in the intestines. (references) | |
Sometimes, hair may grow back a different color or texture. (references) | ||
Soluble fiber dissolves easily in water and takes on a soft, gel-like texture in the intestines. (references) | ||
Business | The trends in carpets have, in the last few years, made an explosion in texture, styling and colorization. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Texture" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.31% of the time. "Texture" is used about 742 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 97.31% | 722 | 9,327 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.88% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.81% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 742 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "texture": close texture ♦ coarse texture ♦ of loose texture ♦ procedural texture ♦ serrate texture. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
texture | 2,770 | grass texture | 23 |
wall texture | 217 | poser texture | 22 |
texture free | 155 | concrete texture | 21 |
texture background | 142 | maker texture | 19 |
ceiling texture | 106 | water texture | 19 |
drywall texture | 90 | 3d studio max texture | 18 |
metal texture | 85 | leather texture | 18 |
texture paint | 76 | hair texture | 18 |
3d texture | 74 | texture coating | 18 |
photo shop texture | 70 | texture library | 17 |
wood texture | 64 | sand texture | 16 |
texture gun | 57 | texture download | 16 |
animal crossing texture | 49 | brick texture | 15 |
painting texture | 34 | spray texture | 15 |
wallpaper texture | 34 | analyzer texture | 15 |
free background texture | 32 | texture image | 15 |
map texture | 27 | marble texture | 15 |
psp texture | 26 | knockdown texture | 14 |
skin texture | 26 | seamless texture | 14 |
free 3d texture | 25 | glass texture | 14 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "texture"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | thurje pëlhure, strukturë pëlhure, ndërtim (building, conformation, construction, erection, fabric, installations, masonry, structure, upbuilding), cilësi (caliber, calibre, capacity, class, degree, fabric, merit, qualification, quality, sort). (various references) | |
Arabic | نسيج (knitting, spun, textile, weaving, web, weft, woof), قماش (cloth, fabric, tarpaulin, textile, tick, tissue, weft), تلاحم, تركيب (anatomy, assemblage, assembly, combination, composing, composition, installation, structure, synthesis), تشابك (engage, entanglement, foul, interlock, ravel, snarl, tangle, web), بنية (armature, build, construction, fabric, figure, format, formation, framework, gestalt, make up, organism, structure, substructure). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | структура на тъкан, строеж (conformation, construction, design, formation, grain, make up, making, mechanism, pattern, set up, structure, turn), характерно качество (specific, tang), фактура (bill of lading, delivery note, invoice), текстура, консистенция (body, consistence, consistency), качество на тъкан, натюрел. (various references) | |
Chinese | 質地 , 纹理. (various references) | |
Czech | tkanivo (web), textura, zrnitost (grain), struktura (fabric, make, structure), osnova látky, konzistence (consistency, temper). (various references) | |
Danish | textur, tekstur (figure, figuring, gradation, grade), tegning (design, drawing), vævning, ujævnhed (roughness, rugosity, unevenness), udkast (casting, casting off, cast-off unploughed strip, concept, conception, dead furrow, design, drafting, draught, drawing, earth furrow, finish, minute, open furrow, pattern, plan, project, sketch, sole furrow), struktur (document structure, gray copper ore, layout structure, structure, tetrahedrite), stofvirkning, mønster (sample, specimen), dessin (drafting, draught, drawing, pattern, plan, sketch). (various references) | |
Dutch | textuur, weefsel (cloth, fabric, material, textile), structuur (structure), stroefheid (roughness, rugosity), samenhang (connection, unity), fotografische textuur, fijnstructuur, bladweefsel (lamina, leaf web). (various references) | |
Farsi | پارچه منسوج , تاروپود (Sinew, Warpandwoof), شالوده (Base, Infrastructure, Pedestal, Skeleton, Sole), دارای بافت ویژه ای نمودن , بافندگی (Weave), بافته (Tissue), بافت (Fiber-Fibre, Tissue, Weave). (various references) | |
Finnish | kudos (tissue, weave, woven fabric). (various references) | |
French | texture, structure. (various references) | |
German | Struktur (construction, fabric, format, formation, make up, structure, weave), textur (fiber, fibre), maserung (grain), Gewebe (cloth, fabric, film, material, stuff, textile, textures, tissue, tissues, weave, web, webs). (various references) | |
Greek | υφή (feel, grain, tissue, web). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משבצת (brocade, inlay, panel, setting), מארג (contexture, fabric, weave, web), מבנה (building, design, fabric, format, formation, frame, set, setup, structure, type), מרקם (fabric, tissue, web), מסכת (chapter, context, tissue, tract, warp, weaving, web, woof), ארג (cloth, fabric, textile). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szövet (cloth, drape, fabric, stuff, textile, tissue, weave, web, webbing, weft, woof), struktúra (conformation, structure), szerkezet (architecture, arrester, arrestor, build, conformation, construction, contraption, contrivance, device, dodge, fabric, framework, gear, gimmick, hanger, hitch, layout, machinery, mechanism, movement, pulling device, rig, sealing, set-up, structure, substructure), alkat (habitude, makeup, stature, temper, temperament). (various references) | |
Italian | struttura (body, build, fabric, facility, frame, framework, making, shell, structure). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 肌 (body, disposition, grain, skin). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おりめ (a crease, a fold, manner, something done by convention, space between threads), おりじ (fabric), テックス (rough texture), テキスチャ , テクスチャー , テクスチャ , きめこまか (grain, meticulous), きめ (agreement, grain, rule), きじ (abandoned child, account, article, cloth, foundling, material, news story, ones true character, pheasant, report, unglazed pottery, unpainted wood, wood grain), ふうあい, ぬのめ, じあい (affection, kindness, love, taking care of oneself), じはだ (grain), はだ (body, disposition, grain, one's bent, skin, surface texture, temperament). (various references) | |
Korean | 짜임새. (various references) | |
Manx | fidderaght (weave, weaving), co-yannoo (make up, structure). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | exturetay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | textura (fabric, grain, woof). (various references) | |
Romanian | texturã, urzealã (netting, scheming, structure, tissue, warp), structurã a unei opere literare, stofã (cloth, fabric, material, stuff, suiting, textile, tissue), desime (density, thicket, thickness), context (context), construcţie (architecture, build, building, built, construction, design, edifice, fabric, frame, framework, make up, pile, structure, style), compoziţie a unei rochii, calitate a ţesãturii, ţesut (tissue, weaving, woven), ţesãturã (contexture, darn, fabric, material, netting, stuff, textile, tissue, web, weft). (various references) | |
Russian | текстура. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | tekstura. (various references) | |
Spanish | textura (hierarchic structure, structure, weave). (various references) | |
Swedish | struktur (architecture, build, conformation, constitution, contexture, economy, fabric, fiber, fibre, frame, framework, setup, structure), konsistens (consistence, consistency). (various references) | |
Thai | เนื้อผ้า, พื้นผิวของงานศิลปะ, ทอผ้า, การจัดเส้นด้ายในการทอ, การจัดองค์ประกอบ, วัตถุที่ทำมาจากสิ่งทอ. (various references) | |
Turkish | yapı (architecture, being, blood, build, building, chemistry, composition, conformation, constitution, construction, contexture, corpus, disposition, edifice, erection, fabric, fiber, fibre, form, frame, framework, habit, habit of body, make, make up, making, Mold, mould, nature, organism, presence, quality, set up, strain, structural, structure, system, works), dokuma özelliği, doku (histo-, tissue), bünye (constitution, contexture, fabric, habit of body, organization, physique, quality, structure). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | якість (affections, caliber, calibre, grade, property, quality, tenor, virtue), текстура, будова тканини. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự dệt (weaving), kết cấu (fabric, structure), cách sắp đặt, cách cấu tạo. (various references) | |
Welsh | gwead (knitting, weaving), gwe (web). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | fila, fili, filo, filum, textura, texturam. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "texture": textured, textureless, textures. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "texture": contexture, retexture. (additional references) | |
Words containing "texture": contextures, retextured, retextures. (additional references) | |
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"Texture" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: extore, tenture, testure, textra, textura, texturer. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "texture" (pronounced te"kskher) |
| 4 | -k s kh er | fixture, mixture. |
| 3 | -s kh er | gesture, moisture, pasture, posture. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-r-t-t-u-x" | |
-1 letter: urtext. | |
-2 letters: exert, tutee, utter. | |
-3 letters: rete, text, tree, tret, true. | |
-4 letters: ere, ree, ret, rex, rue, rut, tee, tet, tut, tux. | |
-5 letters: er, et, ex, re, ut, xu. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-r-t-t-u-x" | |
+1 letter: textured, textures. | |
+2 letters: retexture, texturize. | |
+3 letters: contexture, extenuator, retextured, retextures, textuaries, texturized, texturizes. | |
+4 letters: contextures, extenuators, extenuatory, retexturing, textureless. | |
+5 letters: extratextual, extrauterine, intermixture, intertextual. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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