texture
The feel or shape of a surface or substance; the smoothness, roughness, softness, etc. of something.
Example
“The beans had a grainy, gritty texture in her mouth.”
Other meanings
The quality given to a work of art by the composition and interaction of its parts.
“The piece of music had a mainly homophonic texture.”
An image applied to a polygon to create the appearance of a surface.
Related words
- architexture
- open texture
- overspray surface texture
- echotexture
- hypertexture
- intertexture
- macrotexture
- microtexture
- multitexture
- nanotexture
- retexture
- subtexture
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "textūra" (a weaving, web, texture, structure).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “texture” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.