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語源

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

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɡɹæn.jə.lə(ɹ)/
• (General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈɡɹæn.jə.lɚ/, (/æ/ raising) [ˈɡɹɛən.jə.lɚ]
• (General Australian) IPA: /ˈɡɹæn.jə.lə(ɹ)/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /ˈɡɹɛn.jə.lə(ɹ)/

形容詞

granular (comparative more granular, superlative most granular)

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

   a granular substance

2. Grainy.

   It has a granular structure

   • 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...

3. (transferred sense) Refined or precise.

   This should allow for a more granular degree of control

使用する際の注意点

• It is common to speak of things being "more granular" or "less granular", but this is potentially confusing: something "granular" is composed of small, discrete entities as opposed to being continuous, which is primarily a binary distinction, not a matter of degree. Moreover, it is unclear if "more granular" and "less granular" indicate finer or coarser granularity. For example, granular sugar is so called because it consists of relatively large grains, in contrast with powdered sugar, so "more granular" sugar might be coarser, like a grainier or "more granular" photograph with larger and thus more visible grains. In other cases, "more granular" indicates finer, more plentiful grains or divisions. For clarity, one can refer specifically to finer or coarser granularity. In the superlative, one may refer to finest or coarsest granularity.

同意語

• granulous; see also Thesaurus:granular

等位語

• particulate (adjective)

派生語

関連する語

• coarse-grained
• fine-grained
• grain, granulate, granulation, granule

参照

• “granular”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “granular”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “granular”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.