GRANULAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does granular mean? 

• GRANULAR (adjective)
  The adjective GRANULAR has 2 senses:

1. composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency

2. having a granular structure like that of chondrites

  Familiarity information: GRANULAR used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRANULAR (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency

Synonyms:

coarse-grained; farinaceous; grainy; granular; granulose; gritty; mealy

Context example:

it left a mealy residue

Similar:

coarse; harsh (of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles)

Derivation:

grain (a relatively small granular particle of a substance)

granularity (the quality of being composed of relatively large particles)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having a granular structure like that of chondrites

Synonyms:

chondritic; granular

 Context examples 

A spindle-shaped neoplastic cell with eosinophilic and granular, often abundant cytoplasm.

(Neoplastic Eosinophilic Spindle Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

Granular leukocytes having a nucleus with three to five lobes connected by slender threads of chromatin, and cytoplasm containing fine inconspicuous granules and stainable by neutral dyes.

(Neutrophil, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called natural killer-cell large granular lymphocyte leukemia and NK-LGLL.

(NK-LGL leukemia, NCI Dictionary)

Also called natural killer-cell large granular lymphocyte leukemia and NK-LGL leukemia.

(NK-LGLL, NCI Dictionary)

The NK-92 cell line was originally isolated from a patient with large granular lymphocytic (LGL) leukemia/lymphoma.

(Natural Killer Cells ZRx101, NCI Thesaurus)

Natural killer cells are cells that resemble large granular lymphocytes.

(Natural killer cell, NCI Thesaurus)

Histologically, it is composed of sheets of oval to polygonal cells with a small central nucleus and abundant granular cytoplasm.

(Esophageal Granular Cell Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

“Any spacecraft that lands in regions of granular material on Titan is going to have a tough time staying clean. Think of putting a cat in a box of packing peanuts.”

('Electric Sands' Cover Titan, VOA News)

A benign granular cell tumor that arises from the extrahepatic bile ducts.

(Extrahepatic Bile Duct Benign Granular Cell Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

The determination of the amount of fine granular casts present in a urine sample.

(Fine Granular Cast Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)