Granular

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  • adjective. Composed or appearing to be composed of granules or grains.
  • adjective. Composed of many small elements rather than a few larger elements.
  • adjective. Having a grainy texture.
  • adjective. Containing granules.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Composed of, containing, or bearing grains or granules; resembling grains or granules. Also granulose, granulous.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Consisting of, or resembling, grains.
  • adjective. crystalline limestone, or marble, having a granular structure.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Consisting of, or resembling, granules or grains; as, a granular substance. Grainy. Granular limestone, crystalline limestone, or marble, having a granular structure.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. having a granular structure like that of chondrites
  • adjective. composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency
  • Word Usage
    "While RichCopy specialises in granular control over things like file names and attributes, CopyHandler allows you to get as picky as setting custom buffer sizes based on whether a file is being copied to the same physical disk, disk to disk, disk to optical drive, and so forth."
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    massive  
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    coarse  harsh  
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    annular  
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