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Texture

 
(′teks·chər)

(crystallography) The nature of the orientation, shape, and size of the small crystals in a polycrystalline solid.
(geology) The physical nature of the soil according to composition and particle size.
(petrology) The physical appearance or character of a rock; applied to the megascopic or microscopic surface features of a homogeneous rock or mineral aggregate, such as grain size, shape, and arrangement.


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Texture refers to 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 (visual arts), refers to the element of design and its application in art.
  • 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 mapping, a bitmap image applied to a surface in computer graphics
  • Texture (food), physical and chemical interaction of food in the mouth (Mouthfeel)
  • 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 (image processing), a set of metrics calculated in image processing designed to quantify the perceived texture of an image.
  • The overall feel of discourse in terms of its coherence and connectivity.
  • Microtexture of road surfaces
  • Macrotexture of road surfaces
  • Megatexture (roads) of road surfaces the properties held and sensations caused by the external surface of objects received through the sense of touch or feeling.

 
 

 

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