English
texton
From texture + -on.
Formed from texture + -on
Latin texō ‘to weave, knit’
Latin textūra ‘a weaving, web, texture, structure’
Middle French texture
English texture
Today it means
noun A basic microcomponent of an image that may be recognised visually before the entire image is.
Sources
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Etymograph / texton