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fine-grained

adj

Etymology

From fine + grained.

  1. derived from *ǵr̥h₂nóm✻ — “grain”
  2. derived from grānum — “seed”
  3. derived from grain
  4. inherited from greyn
  5. suffixed as grained — “grain + ed”
  6. compounded as fine-grained — “fine + grained”

Definitions

  1. Consisting of fine particles.

  2. Having a fine, smooth texture.

  3. Highly detailed.

    • “It’s been long needed — and they’ve done a very good job,” said Ewan Birney […]. “This will improve our fine-grained understanding of variation, and then that research will open new opportunities toward clinical applications.”

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fine-grained. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA