coarse-grained

adj

Etymology

From coarse + grained.

  1. derived from *ǵr̥h₂nóm✻ — “grain”
  2. derived from grānum — “seed”
  3. derived from grain
  4. inherited from greyn
  5. suffixed as grained — “grain + ed”
  6. compounded as coarse-grained — “coarse + grained”

Definitions

  1. Consisting of coarse particles.

  2. Having a coarse, irregular texture.

  3. Inelegant

    Inelegant; gross.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for coarse-grained. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA