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granular

adj
/ˈɡɹæn.jə.lə(ɹ)/

Etymology

From Late Latin grānulum (“granule, little grain”), diminutive of Latin grānum (“grain, seed”), + -ar. By surface analysis, granule + -ar. Compare French granulaire.

  1. derived from grānum — “grain, seed”
  2. derived from grānulum — “granule, little grain”

Definitions

  1. Consisting of, or resembling, granules or grains.

    • a granular substance

  2. Grainy.

    • It has a granular structure
    • 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...

  3. Refined or precise.

    • This should allow for a more granular degree of control

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Derived

agranular, dysgranular, equigranular, extragranular, fibrogranular, granular cell tumor, granular cheese, granularisation, granularise, granularity, granularization, granularize, granularly, hypergranular, infragranular, intergranular, intragranular, juxtagranular, macrogranular, mesogranular, microgranular, monogranular, multigranular, nanogranular, nongranular, perigranular, polygranular, pregranular, reticulogranular, semigranular, subgranular, supergranular, supragranular, transgranular

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at granular. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at granular. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at granular

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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