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T0137200 (tĕks′chər)n.1. A structure of interwoven fibers or other elements.2. The distinctive physical composition or structure of something, especially with respect to the size, shape, and arrangement of its parts: the texture of sandy soil; the texture of cooked fish.3. a. The appearance and feel of a surface: the smooth texture of soap.b. A rough or grainy surface quality: Brick walls give a room texture.4. Distinctive or identifying quality or character: "an intensely meditative poet [who] conveys the religious and cultural texture of time spent in a Benedictine monastery" (New York Times).5. The quality given to a piece of art, literature, or music by the interrelationship of its elements: "The baroque influence in his music is clear here, with the harmonic complexity and texture" (Rachelle Roe).tr.v. tex·tured, tex·tur·ing, tex·tures To give texture to, especially to impart desirable surface characteristics to: texture a printing plate by lining and stippling it.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin textūra, from textus, past participle of texere, to weave; see text.]

tex′tur·al adj.tex′tur·al·ly adv.tex′tured adj.

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(ˈtɛkstʃə) n1. the surface of a material, esp as perceived by the sense of touch: a wall with a rough texture. 2. (Textiles) the structure, appearance, and feel of a woven fabric3. the general structure and disposition of the constituent parts of something: the texture of a cake. 4. the distinctive character or quality of something: the texture of life in America. 5. the nature of a surface other than smooth: woollen cloth has plenty of texture. 6. (Art Terms) art the representation of the nature of a surface: the painter caught the grainy texture of the sand. 7. (Music, other) a. music considered as the interrelationship between the horizontally presented aspects of melody and rhythm and the vertically represented aspect of harmony: a contrapuntal texture. b. the nature and quality of the instrumentation of a passage, piece, etcvb (tr) to give a distinctive usually rough or grainy texture to[C15: from Latin textūra web, from texere to weave] ˈtextural adj ˈtexturally adv ˈtextureless adj

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n., v. -tured, -tur•ing. n. 1. the characteristic physical structure given to a material, an object, etc., by the size, shape, and arrangement of its parts: soil of a sandy texture. 2. the characteristic structure of the threads, fibers, etc., that make up a textile fabric: coarse texture. 3. essential or characteristic quality; essence. 4. the visual and tactile quality of the surface of a work of art resulting from the way in which the materials are used. 5. the quality given, as to a musical work, by the combination or interrelation of parts or elements. 6. a rough or grainy surface quality. 7. anything produced by weaving; woven fabric. v.t. 8. to give texture or a particular texture to. 9. to make by or as if by weaving. [1400–50; late Middle English < Latin textūra web =text(us), past participle of texere to weave + -ūra -ure] tex′tur•al, adj. tex′tur•al•ly, adv.

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(tĕks′chər) The spatial relationships between the mineral grains making up a rock.

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- Once referred to a woven fabric, from Latin texere, "to weave."See also related terms for weave.

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Past participle: textured
Gerund: texturing

Imperative
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Present
I texture
you texture
he/she/it textures
we texture
you texture
they texture

Preterite
I textured
you textured
he/she/it textured
we textured
you textured
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Present Continuous
I am texturing
you are texturing
he/she/it is texturing
we are texturing
you are texturing
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Present Perfect
I have textured
you have textured
he/she/it has textured
we have textured
you have textured
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Past Continuous
I was texturing
you were texturing
he/she/it was texturing
we were texturing
you were texturing
they were texturing

Past Perfect
I had textured
you had textured
he/she/it had textured
we had textured
you had textured
they had textured

Future
I will texture
you will texture
he/she/it will texture
we will texture
you will texture
they will texture

Future Perfect
I will have textured
you will have textured
he/she/it will have textured
we will have textured
you will have textured
they will have textured

Future Continuous
I will be texturing
you will be texturing
he/she/it will be texturing
we will be texturing
you will be texturing
they will be texturing

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been texturing
you have been texturing
he/she/it has been texturing
we have been texturing
you have been texturing
they have been texturing

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been texturing
you will have been texturing
he/she/it will have been texturing
we will have been texturing
you will have been texturing
they will have been texturing

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been texturing
you had been texturing
he/she/it had been texturing
we had been texturing
you had been texturing
they had been texturing

Conditional
I would texture
you would texture
he/she/it would texture
we would texture
you would texture
they would texture

Past Conditional
I would have textured
you would have textured
he/she/it would have textured
we would have textured
you would have textured
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texture

1. The visual and tactile quality of a work effected through the particular way the materials are worked.2. The distribution of tones or shades of a partcicular color.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	texture - the feel of a surface or a fabric; "the wall had a smooth texture"tactile property, feel - a property perceived by touchnap - a soft or fuzzy surface texturesmoothness - a texture without roughness; smooth to the touch; "admiring the slim smoothness of her thighs"; "some artists prefer the smoothness of a board"raggedness, roughness - a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven
	2.	texture - the essential quality of something; "the texture of Neapolitan life"lineament, character, quality - a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something; "each town has a quality all its own"; "the radical character of our demands"
	3.	texture - the musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together; "then another melodic line is added to the texture"musicality, musicalness - the property of sounding like music
	4.	texture - the characteristic appearance of a surface having a tactile qualityvisual property - an attribute of visiongrain - the direction, texture, or pattern of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric; "saw the board across the grain"marbleisation, marbleising, marbleization, marbleizing - a texture like that of marblebeaux arts, fine arts - the study and creation of visual works of art
	5.	texture - the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance); "breadfruit has the same texture as bread"; "sand of a fine grain"; "fish with a delicate flavor and texture"; "a stone of coarse grain"grainphysical composition, composition, make-up, makeup, constitution - the way in which someone or something is composed

texture

noun feel, quality, character, consistency, structure, surface, constitution, fabric, tissue, grain, weave, composition It is used in moisturisers to give them a silky texture.

texture

noun1. A distinctive, complex underlying pattern or structure:contexture, fabric, fiber, warp and woof, web.2. A basic trait or set of traits that define and establish the character of something:being, essence, essentiality, nature, quintessence, substance.

Translations

构造织物的组织质地

texture

(ˈtekstjuə) noun1. the way something feels when touched, eaten etc. the texture of wood, stone, skin etc. 质地，构造 2. the way that a piece of cloth looks or feels, caused by the way in which it is woven. the loose texture of this material. （织物的）组织

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1. the structure, appearance, and feel of a woven fabric 2. Art the representation of the nature of a surface 3. a. music considered as the interrelationship between the horizontally presented aspects of melody and rhythm and the vertically represented aspect of harmony b. the nature and quality of the instrumentation of a passage, piece, etc.

Texture

The tactile and visual quality of a surface as distinct from its color or form; as showing a grainy, coarse, tactile or dimensional quality, as opposed to uniformly flat or smooth.

Texture

the phenomenon of preferred orientation of crystalline grains in polycrystals or of molecules in such amorphous solids as liquid crystals and certain polymers, causing anisotropy in the properties of the materials.

Texture may arise under the action of elastic stresses, heat, electric and magnetic fields, and combinations of these factors. For example, thermomechanical treatment and magnetic annealing of materials produces a texture. A distinction is made between axial textures with a preferred orientation of certain crystalline grains or molecules relative to one direction (a texture axis) and plane textures with an orientation relative to a texture plane. Textures are called full if a plane and a separate texture axis are present. The formation of a complex texture with several types of orientation is possible. It is usually not the case that all elements are oriented. Orientations are scattered relative to individual axes and planes. The distribution of orientations is characterized by pole figures, which are determined by X-ray diffraction analysis. Optical methods are also standard techniques for studying texture.

Textures develop during mass crystallization, epitaxial growth, adsorption, phase transitions, vacuum deposition, electrodeposition, and the crystallization and deformation of polymer materials. Textures also arise during casting, drawing, rolling, and pressing of metals and during other types of treatment of materials.

Textured materials are employed in technology. The textures may involve piezoelectric (seePIEZOELECTRIC CERAMICS), optical (seePOLARIZER, SHEET), or magnetic characteristics of the materials. Textures are found in plant and animal tissues, articles made from natural fibers, and other materials.

REFERENCES

Kudriavtsev, I. P. Tekstury v metallakh i splavakh. Moscow, 1965.
Shubnikov, A. V. P’ezoelektricheskie tekstury. Moscow-Leningrad, 1946.
Bunn, C. “Tekstura polimerov.” In Volokna iz sinteticheskikh polimerov. Edited by R. Hill. Moscow, 1957. (Translated from English.)
Vainshtein, B. K. Difraktsiia rentgenovykh luchei na tsepnykh molekulakh. Moscow, 1963.

G. I. DISTLER

Texture

in magnetic materials, the phenomenon of preferred spatial orientation of the directions of easy magnetization in a ferromagnetic or ferrimagnetic polycrystalline specimen, as a result of which the specimen possesses magnetic anisotropy. Such texture arises when a specimen is subjected to uniaxial mechanical stresses that cause a preferred orientation of the crystallites, or a crystallographic texture. It also arises during thermomechanical treatment and during magnetic annealing, or heat treatment of the specimen below its Curie temperature in the presence of a magnetic field. The development of a texture in magnetic materials offers the possibility of sharply improving the magnetic properties of certain ferromagnetic materials.

Soft-magnetic materials with a preferred orientation of the directions of easy magnetization include crystallographically textured transformer steel, Perminvar, and such Permalloys as 50 NP and 65 NP. Imparting a texture to these materials reduces the coercive force, hysteresis losses, and other hysteresis-related phenomena. The development of a texture in such hard-magnetic materials as Magnico, Ticonal, and barium and cobalt ferrites increases, for example, the coercive force and remanence.

REFERENCES

Metally i splavy v elektrotekhnike [3rd ed.], vols. 1–2. Moscow-Leningrad, 1957.
Preobrazhenskii, A. A. Teoriia magnetizma, magnitnye materialy i elementy. Moscow, 1972.

Texture

in metals, the phenomenon of preferred orientation of the crystal lattice of grains, or crystallites, in a metal object.

A texture is described by indicating the crystallographic axes that correspond to particular directions in a metal object, for example, the axis of a wire or rod and the direction of rolling or the normal to a crystal plane in a rolled sheet or strip. Different grains in polycrystalline objects may have the same or different preferred orientations; these two cases correspond to fiber and inhomogeneous textures, respectively. The texture of a metal is characterized by the relative volume of crystallites with a similar orientation and also by the scatter of grain orientation around a certain mean orientation. Texture arises during casting, plastic deformation and subsequent annealing (recrystallization), electrodeposition, spraying, and other treatments of metals.

Textured polycrystalline objects have an anisotropy of their mechanical and physical properties that approaches the anisotropy of the properties of single crystals. In some cases, a texture is produced intentionally, as in transformer steel, deep-drawn steel, and permanent magnetic alloys. Attempts are made to remove the texture in other cases—for example, in deep-drawn copper and aluminum plate alloys.

REFERENCES

Kudriavtsev, I. P. Tekstury v metallakh i splavakh. Moscow, 1965.
Wassermann, G., and J. Grewen. Tekstury metallicheskikh materialov, 2nd ed. Moscow, 1969. (Translated from German.)

V. IU. NOVIKOV

texture

[′teks·chər] (crystallography) The nature of the orientation, shape, and size of the small crystals in a polycrystalline solid. (geology) The physical nature of the soil according to composition and particle size. (petrology) The physical appearance or character of a rock; applied to the megascopic or microscopic surface features of a homogeneous rock or mineral aggregate, such as grain size, shape, and arrangement.

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The tactile and visual quality of a surface or substance other than its color.

texture

(graphics)A measure of the variation of the intensity of asurface, quantifying properties such as smoothness, coarsenessand regularity. It's often used as a region descriptor inimage analysis and computer vision.

The three principal approaches used to describe texture arestatistical, structural and spectral. Statistical techniquescharacterise texture by the statistical properties of the greylevels of the points comprising a surface. Typically, theseproperties are computed from the grey level histogram orgrey level cooccurrence matrix of the surface.

Structural techniques characterise texture as being composedof simple primitives called "texels" (texture elements), thatare regularly arranged on a surface according to some rules.These rules are formally defined by grammars of varioustypes.

Spectral techiques are based on properties of the Fourierspectrum and describe global periodicity of the grey levels ofa surface by identifying high energy peaks in the spectrum.

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noun feel

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noun a distinctive, complex underlying pattern or structure

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noun a basic trait or set of traits that define and establish the character of something

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noun the feel of a surface or a fabric

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noun the essential quality of something

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noun the musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together

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noun the characteristic appearance of a surface having a tactile quality

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noun the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance)

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