Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a fine, smooth, even grain.
- adjective Marginally different or subtle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective consisting of fine particles.
- adjective dense or compact in structure or texture, as a wood composed of small-diameter cells.
- adjective involving careful consideration of details and fine distinctions; -- of conceptual schemas.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Consisting of fine
particles - adjective Having a fine, smooth
texture - adjective figuratively
detailed
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective dense or compact in structure or texture, as a wood composed of small-diameter cells
- adjective consisting of fine particles
Etymologies
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Examples
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The rock here is a porphyritic granite (porhyritic meaning that the stone has large-grained crystals, such as feldspar or quartz, dispersed in a fine-grained feldspathic matrix or groundmass).
Of Books and the Sea greygirlbeast 2010
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The rock here is a porphyritic granite (porhyritic meaning that the stone has large-grained crystals, such as feldspar or quartz, dispersed in a fine-grained feldspathic matrix or groundmass).
Of Books and the Sea greygirlbeast 2010
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While the global models do a good job of simulating global trends in temperature, they often do poorly on fine-grained regional projections.
Serendipity: What has software engineering got to do with climate change? 2010
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Among the world's major languages, none surpasses ours in its capacity to connote and convey nuances, fine-grained distinctions and subtleties -- the sorts of linguistic trickeration that help us avoid conflict while resolving disagreements about touchy subjects.
Tony Phillips: English Lacks Vocabulary for Safe Discussion of Stepchildren Tony Phillips 2011
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More fine-grained analyses of the data, for example, show considerable differences in the impact of male job loss across lines of class, race, age, and region; not all men have been affected equally by the downturn, nor women for that matter, suggesting at the very least that there is more to the so-called gender gap than meets the eye.
Alice O'Connor: The Myth of the Mancession? Women & the Jobs Crisis -- Fact, Fiction, and Female Unemployment Alice O 2010
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While the global models do a good job of simulating global trends in temperature, they often do poorly on fine-grained regional projections.
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The new Mini-SAR image shows that this material is also dark in radar reflectivity, exactly what would be expected from a fine-grained, block-free deposit.
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In the 17th century, the scientific revolution gave rise to a group of artists who dedicated themselves to depicting nature in all of its fine-grained particulars.
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While the global models do a good job of simulating global trends in temperature, they often do poorly on fine-grained regional projections.
Uncertainties and challenges in climate science | Serendipity 2010
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More fine-grained analyses of the data, for example, show considerable differences in the impact of male job loss across lines of class, race, age, and region; not all men have been affected equally by the downturn, nor women for that matter, suggesting at the very least that there is more to the so-called gender gap than meets the eye.
Alice O'Connor: The Myth of the Mancession? Women & the Jobs Crisis -- Fact, Fiction, and Female Unemployment Alice O'Connor 2010
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