granular
pronunciation
How to pronounce granular in British English:
UK [ˈɡrænjələ(r)]
How to pronounce granular in American English:
US [ˈɡrænjələr]
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- Adjective:
- composed of or covered with relatively large particles
- having a granular structure like that of chondrites
Word Origin
- granular (adj.)
- 1790, from Late Latin granulum "granule, a little grain," diminutive of Latin granum "grain, seed," from PIE root *gre-no- "grain" (see corn (n.1)) + -ar. Replaced granulous (late 14c.). Related: Granularity.
Example
- 1. Tomtom provides a granular picture of road-network performance from its traffic database .
- 2. It now serves as a pliant workhorse for lots of " granular " thinking in the field .
- 3. This recipe calls for the use of granular sugar substitute instead of sugar , and hence , yields cookies that are lower in calories .
- 4. These are heavy hitters who should offer up some really innovative apis for the developer community to process user " attention data " and for marketers to monitor trends in interesting and granular ways .
- 5. So we don 't know , for example , what an apparently key performance factor might be that receives causal input from silane concentration , residence time , fluidization , and temperature , and then effects byproducts and granular silicon yield .