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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]: textureA 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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