Texture (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun
  1. the visual and especially tactile quality of a surface: rough texture.
  2. the characteristic structure of the interwoven or intertwined threads, strands, or the like, that make up a textile fabric: coarse texture.
  3. the characteristic physical structure given to a material, an object, etc., by the size, shape, arrangement, and proportions of its parts: soil of a sandy texture; a cake with a heavy texture.
  4. an essential or characteristic quality; essence.
  5. Fine Arts.
    • the characteristic visual and tactile quality of the surface of a work of art resulting from the way in which the materials are used.
    • the imitation of the tactile quality of represented objects.
  6. the quality given, as to a musical or literary work, by the combination or interrelation of parts or elements.
  7. a rough or grainy surface quality.
  8. anything produced by weaving; woven fabric.
verb (used with object), tex·tured, tex·tur·ing.
  1. to give texture or a particular texture to.
  2. to make by or as if by weaving.
noun
  1. the surface of a material, esp as perceived by the sense of touch
  2. the structure, appearance, and feel of a woven fabric
  3. the general structure and disposition of the constituent parts of something
  4. the distinctive character or quality of something
  5. the nature of a surface other than smooth
  6. the representation of the nature of a surface
    • music considered as the interrelationship between the horizontally presented aspects of melody and rhythm and the vertically represented aspect of harmony
    • the nature and quality of the instrumentation of a passage, piece, etc
verb
  1. to give a distinctive usually rough or grainy texture to
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