texture

Meanings

Noun

• The feel or shape of a surface or substance; the smoothness, roughness, softness, etc. of something.
• The quality given to a work of art by the composition and interaction of its parts.
• An image applied to a polygon to create the appearance of a surface.
• The act or art of weaving.
• Something woven; a woven fabric; a web.
• A tissue.

Verb

• To create or apply a texture.

Origin

• Borrowed from Middle French texture, borrowed from Latin textūra ("a weaving, web, texture, structure"), from textus, past participle of texere. See text. tessitura.