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granulometry

noun

Etymology

From granule + -o- + -metry.

  1. derived from grānum
  2. borrowed from grānulum
  3. borrowed from granule
  4. formed as granulometry — “granule + -o- + -metry”

Definitions

  1. The measurement of the sizes of mineral grains in sedimentary rock.

  2. The measurement of the size distribution in granular material.

    • Recent studies demonstrate that encapsulation of the healing agent provides successive repair by reducing the capsules’ diameter to the material granulometry [2] and by casting them through materials compatible to concrete (i.e., [3]).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

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