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coarse-grained

(kôrs′grānd′)
adj.
1. Having a rough, coarse texture.
2. Not refined; indelicate and crude.
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coarse-grained

adj
1. having a large or coarse grain
2. (of a person) having a coarse nature; gross
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coarse′-grained′



adj.
1. of coarse texture or grain.
2. crude; rough.
[1760–70]
coarse′-grained′ness, n.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.coarse-grained - composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency; "granular sugar"; "the photographs were grainy and indistinct"; "it left a mealy residue"
coarse, harsh - of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles; "coarse meal"; "coarse sand"; "a coarse weave"
2.coarse-grained - not having a fine texture; "coarse-grained wood"; "large-grained sand"
coarse, harsh - of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles; "coarse meal"; "coarse sand"; "a coarse weave"
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Translations

coarse-grained

[ˈkɔːsgreɪnd] ADJde grano grueso (fig) → tosco, basto
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coarse-grained

[ˌkɔːsˈgreɪnd] adj (sandpaper) → a grana grossa; (person) → grossolano/a
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Oh, man, selfish, indelicate, coarse-grained at the best, thy woman's hour has come; get thee gone.
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The proposed terminal with a loading capacity of approximately 8mn tons per year will enable large volume export of gabbro, a coarse-grained rock used in asphalt and other minerals, reported Muscat Daily.
Emotions, by contrast, are mediated and coarse-grained. Pleasure and pain are coarse-grained but, in a range of important cases, immediate.
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Call objects which are such that, for every property, the object either has the property or lacks the property "fine-grained objects." Call objects which are such that, for every property, the object neither has the property nor lacks the property "coarse-grained objects." (Objects of intermediate grain will be objects which have or lack some properties whilst there are other properties they neither have nor lack.).
Massive infrastructures have been designed and constructed in Northern China, such as the West-East electricity transmission project, and have to face the problematic soils, e.g., coarse-grained saline soils, especially those distributed in the Gobi Desert or the desert margin in inland areas [1, 2].
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One important aspect of the physical world is that coarse-grained descriptions often suffice to make predictions about relevant behavior.