granularity

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English granular

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-ts

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts

Latin -itāsder.

Old French -itebor.

Middle English -ite

English -ity

English granularity

From granular + -ity.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌɡɹæn.jəˈlæɹ.ə.ti/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌɡɹæn.jəˈlɝ.ə.ti/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

granularity (countable and uncountable, plural granularities)

1. (uncountable) The condition of being granular.
   • 2012, Geerd-R. Hoffmann, David F. Snelling, Multiprocessing in Meteorological Models, page 57:

     By granularity we mean the length of time to execute a multitaskable segment of the original program on a single CPU. Granularity is measured in time units, rather than floating point operations, […]

2. (countable) The extent to which something is granular.

Derived terms

• equigranularity
• hypergranularity
• microgranularity
• multigranularity

Related terms

• granulate
• granulation
• granule

Translations

condition of being granular

• Finnish: rakeisuus (fi)
• French: granularité (fr) f
• Georgian: მარცვლოვნება (marcvlovneba)
• Polish: ziarnistość f
• Portuguese: granularidade f
• Russian: зернистость (ru) (zernistostʹ)

extent to which something is granular

• Finnish: rakeisuus (fi)
• French: granularité (fr) f
• Polish: ziarnistość f
• Portuguese: granularidade f
• Russian: глубина́ детализации (glubiná detalizacii)

Further reading

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “granularity”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.