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GRANULARITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being composed of relatively large particles
Synonyms:
coarseness; graininess; granularity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("granularity" is a kind of...):
raggedness; roughness (a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "granularity"):
sandiness (a texture resembling that of sand)
Derivation:
granular (composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency)
