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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Texture \Tex"ture\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Textured}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Texturing}.] To form a texture of or with; to interweave. [R.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Texture \Tex"ture\, noun [L. textura, fr. texere, textum, to weave: cf. F. texture. See {Text}.]
1. The act or art of weaving. [R.] --Sir T. Browne.
2. That which woven; a woven fabric; a web. --Milton.
Others, apart far in the grassy dale, Or roughening waste, their humble texture weave. --Thomson.
3. The disposition or connection of threads, filaments, or other slender bodies, interwoven; as, the texture of cloth or of a spider's web.
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.
5. (Biol.) A tissue. See {Tissue}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
texture
noun
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)
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