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textons

textons is the plural of texton.

Meaning of texton

Noun (1)

texton (plural textons)

  1. A basic microcomponent of an image that may be recognised visually before the entire image is.

Noun (2)

texton (plural textons)

  1. A string of text that acts like a variable, from which the scriptons of a dynamic text are assembled.
    • A hypertext such as Afternoon (Joyce 1990) will have a fixed number of scriptons (and textons), while the game Adventure (Crowther and Woods 1976) will have a fixed set of textons but a variable number of scriptons (texton cominations), determined by the progress of the play. In a MUD, where other...1997, Espen J. Aarseth, Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature, →ISBN, page 63

Questions about textons

What is textons the plural of?
Textons is the plural of texton.

Words near textons in the dictionary

  1. textologists
  2. textology
  3. textome
  4. textomes
  5. texton
  6. textons
  7. textonym
  8. textonyms
  9. textorial
  10. textpert
  11. textphone

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