Texture

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Texture refers to Texture is sometimes used to describe the feel of non-tactile sensations. Texture can also be termed as a pattern that has been scaled down (especially in case of two dimensional non-tactile textures) where the individual elements that go on to make the pattern not distinguishable.

Texture may also refer to:

• Texture (painting), feel of the canvas based on the paint used and its method of application
• Texture (visual arts), refers to the element of design and its application in art.
• Texture (music), a way to describe the overall sound created by the interaction of aspects of a piece of music
• Texture (crystalline), the property of a material's individual crystallites sharing some degree of orientation
• Texture (geology), the physical appearance or character of a rock
• Texture mapping, a bitmap image applied to a surface in computer graphics
• Texture (food), physical and chemical interaction of food in the mouth (Mouthfeel)
• Textures (band), a metal band from the Netherlands
• Soil texture, describes the relative proportion of grain sizes of a soil or any unconsolidated material
• Texture (cosmology), a type of theoretical topological defect in the structure of spacetime.
• Character structure, various life experiences resulting in the "texture" of one's character
• Texture (roads), road surface characteristics with waves shorter than road roughness
• Textures (software), a well known software program to typeset TeX and LaTeX on Macintosh computers
• Texture (image processing), a set of metrics calculated in image processing designed to quantify the perceived texture of an image.
• The overall feel of discourse in terms of its coherence and connectivity.
• Microtexture of road surfaces
• Macrotexture of road surfaces
• Megatexture (roads) of road surfaces the properties held and sensations caused by the external surface of objects received through the sense of touch or feeling.

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