Texel (disambiguation)
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Texel may refer to :
- TexelTexelTexel is a municipality and an island in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It is the biggest and most populated of the Frisian Islands in the Wadden Sea, and also the westernmost of this archipelago, which extends to Denmark...
, an island and municipality of the Netherlands in the North Sea - Texel (sheep)Texel (sheep)The Texel is a breed of domestic sheep originally from the island of Texel in the Netherlands. It is now a popular lean meat sheep in the USA, Australia, New Zealand, Uruguay and Europe. The Texel is a heavily muscled sheep. It produces a lean meat carcass and will pass on this quality to crossbred...
, a breed of sheep originally from Texel - Texel (graphics)Texel (graphics)A texel, or texture element is the fundamental unit of texture space, used in computer graphics. Textures are represented by arrays of texels, just as pictures are represented by arrays of pixels....
, texture element or texture pixel, the unit of texture space used in computer graphics - Texel DisasterTexel DisasterThe Texel disaster took place off the Dutch coast on the night of 31 August 1940 and involved the sinking of two Royal Navy destroyers and damage to a third and a light cruiser...
, the sinking of two British destroyers by German mines off the coast of Texel on 31 August 1940 - Texel Guinea Pig, a variety of guinea pig