4  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Texture  \Tex"ture\,  n.  [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  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Texture  \Tex"ture\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Textured};  p.  pr  &  vb 
  n.  {Texturing}.] 
  To  form  a  texture  of  or  with  to  interweave.  [R.] 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  texture 
  n  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:  (fine  arts)  the  characteristic  appearance  of  a  surface 
  having  a  tactile  quality 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [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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