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1Granular computing — is an emerging computing paradigm of information processing. It concerns the processing of complex information entities called information granules, which arise in the process of data abstraction and derivation of knowledge from information.… …
2Granular material — A granular material is a conglomeration of discrete solid, macroscopic particles characterized by a loss of energy whenever the particles interact (the most common example would be friction when grains collide). The constituents that compose… …
3Granular convection — Brazil nuts ride on top of other assorted nuts Granular convection is a phenomenon where granular material subjected to shaking or vibration will exhibit circulation patterns similar to types of fluid convection.[1] It is sometimes described as… …
4granular cell — a keratinocyte in the stratum granulosum of the epidermis, when it has become flattened and rhomboid in shape and contains a dense collection of keratohyalin granules; it eventually dies and moves into the stratum corneum …
5grain — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, partly from Anglo French grain cereal grain, from Latin granum; partly from Anglo French graine seed, kermes, from Latin grana, plural of granum more at corn Date: 14th century 1. a. (1) obsolete a single small… …
6sugar — I. noun Etymology: Middle English sugre, sucre, from Anglo French sucre, from Medieval Latin zuccarum, from Old Italian zucchero, from Arabic sukkar, from Persian shakar, ultimately from Sanskrit śarkarā; akin to Sanskrit śarkara pebble more at… …
7granulate — granulater, granulator, n. granulative /gran yeuh lay tiv, leuh tiv/, adj. /gran yeuh layt /, v., granulated, granulating. v.t. 1. to form into granules or grains. 2. to raise in granules; make rough on the surface. v.i. 3. to become granular or… …
8globi — 1. Plural of globus. 2. Brown bodies sometimes found in the granulomatous lesions of leprosy, in addition to the macrophages that contain the acid fast bacilli; thought to be degenerate forms of such cells, in which the organisms are no longer… …
9granulate — I. v. a. Form into grains, reduce to grains. II. v. n. Be formed into grains, become granular, roughen …
10granulate — gran•u•late [[t]ˈgræn yəˌleɪt[/t]] v. lat•ed, lat•ing 1) to form into granules or grains 2) to make rough on the surface 3) to become granular • Etymology: 1660–70 gran′u•lat er, gran′u•la tor, n …
