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.
- agglutination
- agglutinogen
- aggradation
- aggregate
- aggregate abrasion value
- aggregate buying site
- aggregate crushing value
- aggregate data
- aggregate demand
- aggregate demand schedule
- aggregated fluidization
- aggregate impact value
- aggregate production function
- aggregate supply
- aggregate tests
- aggregation
- aggregation problem
- aggregator
- aggressin
- aggression
- aggressivity
- AGILE
- agile methods
- Agincourt, Battle of (25 October 1415)
- agitated vessel