GRANULARITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does granularity mean? 

• GRANULARITY (noun)
  The noun GRANULARITY has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being composed of relatively large particles

  Familiarity information: GRANULARITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRANULARITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being composed of relatively large particles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

coarseness; graininess; granularity

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)

 Context examples 

NOTE(S): The granularity of the code may vary depending on the specificity of the material.

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