Granular

Adjective

 * 1) Consisting of, or resembling, granules or grains; as, a granular substance. Grainy.  Granular limestone, crystalline limestone, or marble, having a granular structure.
 * 2) * 1790, Abraham Mills, Some Strata in Ireland and Scotland, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 80
 * This Whyn Dyke is bare at the cliffs ſeveral yards in height, and is near nine feet in width. It conſiſts of an inner part of a granular and ſomewhat porous texture...

Derived terms

 * granularity

Related terms

 * coarse-grained
 * fine-grained
 * grain
 * granulate
 * granulation
 * granule

Thesaurus
arenaceous, arenarious, atomic, breccial, brecciated, coarse, coarse-grained, comminuted, corpuscular, cross-grained, embryonic, evanescent, germinal, grained, grainy, granulate, granulated, gravelly, gritty, gross, impalpable, imperceptible, imponderable, inappreciable, indiscernible, infinitesimal, intangible, invisible, microcosmic, microscopic, molecular, pebbled, pebbly, rough, sabulous, sandy, shingled, shingly, subatomic, tenuous, thin, ultramicroscopic, unrefined, unseeable

Etymology
< . Compare French granulaire:.

Translations

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Adjective

 * 1) granular

Verb

 * 1) to granulate