Noun

(en noun)

The feel or shape of a surface or substance; the smoothness, roughness, softness, etc. of something.

The beans had a grainy, gritty texture in her mouth.

(arts) The quality given to a work of art by the composition and interaction of its parts.

The piece of music had a mainly smooth texture .

(computer graphics) An image applied to a polygon to create the appearance of a surface,

(obsolete) The act or art of weaving.

(Sir Thomas Browne)

(obsolete) Something woven; a woven fabric; a web.

* Thomson

Others, apart far in the grassy dale, / Or roughening waste, their humble texture weave.

(Milton)

(biology, obsolete) A tissue.

Noun

(uncountable) Oneness; the state or fact of being one undivided entity.

* 1846 ,

If any literary work is too long to be read at one sitting, we must be content to dispense with the immensely important effect derivable from unity of impression - for, if two sittings be required, the affairs of the world interfere, and everything like totality is at once destroyed.

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A single undivided thing, seen as complete in itself.

* 1999 , Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams , Oxford 2008, p. 137:

If a single day has brought us two or more experiences suitable to initiate a dream, the dream will unite references to them both into a single whole; it obeys a compulsion to form a unity out of them .

(drama) Any of the three classical rules of drama (unity of action, unity of place, and unity of time).`

(mathematics) Any element of a set or field that behaves under a given operation as the number 1 behaves under multiplication.

(legal) The peculiar characteristics of an estate held by several in joint tenancy.