Look up: granularity

1. Granularity
   The relative fineness or coarseness by which a mechanism can be adjusted.
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2. Granularity
   (In topic `architecture`) Granularity is a spectrum of data type ranging from fine grained (e.g. as records and instances) to coarse grained (e.g. files). RDBMS`s & OODB`s typically operate on fine-grained data whereas File Systems operate on coarse grained data.
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3. granularity
   term referring to the structure of the sensitive emulsion as represented by the measured variation in the distribution of an apparently uniform silver deposit. Category: General • the level of detail in a chunk of information,e.g.,a rule or frame Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)
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4. granularity
   (from the article `mineral`) ...not part of well-formed single crystals but are found as crystals grown together in aggregates. Examples of some descriptive terms for such ... Among the most fundamental properties of igneous rocks are crystallinity and granularity, two terms that closely reflect differences in magma ... [2 related ar...
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5. Granularity
   Granularity is the extent to which a system is broken down into small parts, either the system itself or its description or observation. It is the "extent to which a larger entity is subdivided. For example, a yard broken into inches has finer granularity than a yard broken into feet." Coarse-grain...
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6. 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 paral...
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