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granularity - 3 dictionary results

gran⋅u⋅lar

  [gran-yuh-ler]
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–adjective
1. of the nature of granules; grainy.
2. composed of or bearing granules or grains.
3. showing a granulated structure.
Origin:
1785–95; granule + -ar 1

Related forms:
gran⋅u⋅lar⋅i⋅ty, noun
gran⋅u⋅lar⋅ly, adverb
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gran·u·lar   (grān'yə-lər)   
adj.  
  1. Composed or appearing to be composed of granules or grains.
  2. Having a grainy texture.
  3. Biology Containing granules: granular cells.
gran'u·lar'i·ty (-lār'ĭ-tē) n., gran'u·lar·ly adv.
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granularity jargon, parallel
The 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)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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