1. In petrology, the sizes and shapes of particles in rock and their mutual interrelationships.
2. In pedology, the proportions of sand, silt, and clay in the fine earth of a soil sample, which give a distinctive feel to the soil when handled, and which are defined by classes of soil texture.
Texture
The principal explanatory concept in the corpuscularian natural science of Boyle, and thence Locke. Bodies are conglomerates of corpuscles, but the particular way the corpuscles are linked makes the texture of a body, and explains its powers in the rationally satisfying way that the shape of a lock and a key explain the power of the key to fit the lock.
- allopatric speciation
- allopatry
- allophane
- allopolyploid
- all-or-none response
- allosteric enzyme
- allosteric site
- allostratigraphic units
- allostratigraphy
- allotriomorphic
- allotrope
- allotropy
- allowable bearing pressure
- allowed band
- allowed bands
- allowed transition
- allowed transitions
- alloy
- alloyed device
- alloyed junction
- alloy steels
- allozyme
- all-pass network
- all-sky camera
- all-sky monitor