granularity
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Granularity
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| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
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granular (ˈɡrænjʊlə) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | of, like, containing, or resembling a granule or granules |
| 2. | having a grainy or granulated surface |
| 'granularly | |
| —adv | |
| granularity (ˌɡrænjʊˈlærɪtɪ) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | the state or quality of being grainy or granular |
| 2. | the state or quality of being composed of many individual pieces or elements |
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Word Origin & History
granular
1794, from L.L. granulum "granule," dim. of L. granum "grain." Replaced granulous (14c.).
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Medical Dictionary
granular gran·u·lar (grān'yə-lər)
adj.
Composed or appearing to be composed of granules or grains.
Relating to or containing particles having a strong affinity for nuclear stains, as in certain bacteria.
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Computing Dictionary
granularity definition
jargon, parallelThe size of the units of code under consideration in some context. The term generally refers to the level of detail at which code is considered, e.g. "You can specify the granularity for this profiling tool".
The most common computing use is in parallelism where "fine grain parallelism" means individual tasks are relatively small in terms of code size and execution time, "coarse grain" is the opposite. You talk about the "granularity" of the parallelism.
The smaller the granularity, the greater the potential for parallelism and hence speed-up but the greater the overheads of synchronisation and communication.
(1997-05-08)
Example sentences
These ontologies cover unrelated or overlapping domains, at different levels of detail and granularity.
The new monitoring stations should allow such granularity.
Abstraction and granularity is mixed with intelligence.
Data locality, granularity, and task scheduling for load balancing are non-issues.
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