granularity

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  1. The condition or quality of being granular. The emulsion should be of a good orange-ruby color when a drop is examined by transmitted light, and should show no granularity with a magnifier. Sci. Amer. Supp., p. 9133.
  2. In petrography, the magnitude of the grain of a rock: a factor in the texture.

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  • Really, based on Skip's e-mail and a few others, I think that the loss of data granularity is what's bothering some people more than anything else. —  Dubious Quality
  • Direct access to indexed metadata offers significant advantages in terms of search speed, granularity, and options for displaying search results.
  • You can get the subsecond granularity, and log queries accordingly. —  Database Journal News
  • Access control lists alone are notoriously difficult to manage with any level of granularity, which is why most enterprises choose to deploy firewalls as the principle enforcement points on the network. —  VMblog.com - Virtualization Technology News and Information for Everyone
  • It now features way more granularity, and runs off Amazon's S3 service. —  World of SL
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