Look up: texture

1. Texture
   [geology] Texture in geology refers to the physical appearance or character of a rock, such as grain size, shape, arrangement, and pattern at both the megascopic or microscopic surface feature level. This includes the geometric aspects and relations amongst the component particles or crystal...
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2. Texture
   [painting] Texture in painting is the look and feel of the canvas. It is based on the paint, and its application, or the addition of materials such as ribbon, metal, wood, lace, leather and sand. The concept of `painterliness` also has bearing on texture. The texture stimulates two different...
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3. Texture
   [crystalline] In materials science, texture is the distribution of crystallographic orientations of a polycrystalline sample. A sample in which these orientations are fully random is said to have no texture. If the crystallographic orientations are not random, but have some preferred orienta...
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4. Texture
   [music] In music, texture is the way the melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic materials are combined in a composition (Benward & Saker 2003, 131), thus determining the overall quality of sound of a piece. Texture is often described in regards to the density, or thickness, and range, or width betw...
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5. texture
   the way in which the individual lines of a composition interact. Commonly divided into monophonic, homophonic, and polyphonic.
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6. texture
   The arrangement of the components of the different tissues, as compact, loose, etc.
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7. texture
   geometric interrelationships among constituent mineral grains in a rock.
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8. texture
   [n] - the essential quality of something 2. [n] - the musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together 3. [n] - (fine arts) the characteristic appearance of a surface having a tactile quality 4. [n] - the feel of a surface or a fabric
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9. Texture
   A bitmap image that is applied to the surface of 3D object to give it detail. Texture maps may be either photographic images or procedural textures, and may be applied in each of the material channels of an object using a variety of mapping or projection methods.
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10. Texture
    A surface treatment applied to the mould to create texture on the parts. Protomold offers polished, sanded and bead-blasted textures
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11. Texture
    A tasting term for the mouthfeel of wine on the palate.
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12. texture
    In art, the surface quality or appearance of a work; how the surface feels or how a work looks like it would feel. Texture, one of the formal art elements, can be experienced by the senses of sight...
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13. Texture
    The smoothness of a column of text. The goal of fine typography is to create columns without distracting 'holes,' or 'rivers',
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14. texture
    fine-grained pattern of small elements,arranged with a certain structure Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers) • the characteristic effect of fine detail on the general appearance of an aerial photograph Category: General • the structural character ...
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15. Texture
    Tex'ture noun [ Latin textura , from texere , textum , to weave: confer French texture . See Text .] 1. The act or art of weaving. [ R.] Sir T. Browne. 2. That which woven; a woven fabric; a ...
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16. Texture
    Tex'ture transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Textured ; present participle & verbal noun Texturing .] To form a texture of or with; to interweave. [ R.]
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17. texture
    1. The act or art of weaving. ... 2. That which woven; a woven fabric; a web. '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 o...
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18. texture
    noun the feel of a surface or a fabric; `the wall had a smooth texture`
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19. texture
    noun the essential quality of something; `the texture of Neapolitan life`
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20. texture
    (teks´chәr) the structure or constitution of tissues. adj., tex´tural., adj.
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21. Texture
    • (n.) 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. •...
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22. texture
    (from the article `architecture`) Texture plays a dual role in architecture: it expresses something of the quality of materials, and it gives a particular quality to light. Although ... Visual appearance includes more than just shape and colour; texture and surface finish (e.g., matte, satin, glossy) also must be accurately modeled. ......
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23. texture
    (from the article `rock`) The texture of a rock is the size, shape, and arrangement of the grains (for sedimentary rocks) or crystals (for igneous and metamorphic rocks). Also ... The texture of an igneous rock normally is defined by the size and form of its constituent mineral grains and by the spatial relationships of ... Carbonate...
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24. texture
    (from the article `acoustics`) `Texture` refers to the time interval between the arrival of the direct sound and the arrival of the first few reverberations. To obtain good ...
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25. texture
    the concrete, physical elements of prose or poetry that are separate from the structure or argument of the work. Such elements include metaphor, ...
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