Granular
adjective
Made up or appearing to be made up of small particles.
The granular sugar was easy to measure for the cake recipe.
Often appears as...
- granular sugar
- granular form
adjective
Detailed or showing a lot of small pieces of information.
The software provides a granular analysis of the company's financial data.
Often appears as...
- granular analysis
- granular data
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Formal
Technical
adjective
Looking like grains or particles.
The scientist observed the granular surface of the moon through the telescope.
Often appears as...
- granular surface
- granular texture
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Scientific
adjective
Made up or appearing to be made up of small particles.
The granular sugar was easy to measure for the cake recipe.
Often appears as...
- granular sugar
- granular form
adjective
Detailed or showing a lot of small pieces of information.
The software provides a granular analysis of the company's financial data.
Often appears as...
- granular analysis
- granular data
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
adjective
Looking like grains or particles.
The scientist observed the granular surface of the moon through the telescope.
Often appears as...
- granular surface
- granular texture
Usage tips
Scientific
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Pro Tip 1/3Visual Texture
Think of textures that are visibly coarse, like sand. 'Granular' often describes similar textures.
The painting had a granular texture that gave it depth.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Characteristics
Items like sugar, salt, or sand that you can sprinkle or pour are often described as granular.
We need granular salt for the recipe, not table salt.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Literal
'Granular' can be used metaphorically to mean 'in small pieces' or 'not smooth'.
The committee's feedback was quite granular, focusing on minute details.
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Texture
Think of textures that are visibly coarse, like sand. 'Granular' often describes similar textures.
The painting had a granular texture that gave it depth.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Characteristics
Items like sugar, salt, or sand that you can sprinkle or pour are often described as granular.
We need granular salt for the recipe, not table salt.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Literal
'Granular' can be used metaphorically to mean 'in small pieces' or 'not smooth'.
The committee's feedback was quite granular, focusing on minute details.
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Texture
Think of textures that are visibly coarse, like sand. 'Granular' often describes similar textures.
The painting had a granular texture that gave it depth.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Characteristics
Items like sugar, salt, or sand that you can sprinkle or pour are often described as granular.
We need granular salt for the recipe, not table salt.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Literal
'Granular' can be used metaphorically to mean 'in small pieces' or 'not smooth'.
The committee's feedback was quite granular, focusing on minute details.
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Seth Priebatsch:...
and that bothers me. And this is so deep-seated in our psyche that when we're presented with a progress bar and presented with easy, granular steps to take to try and complete that progress bar, we will do it. We will find a way to move that blue line all the way to the right edge of the screen. This is used in conventional games as well.
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Let's use video to...
how long they've spent each day, what videos they've watched, when did they pause the videos, what did they stop watching, what exercises are they using, what have they focused on? The outer circle shows what exercises they were focused on. The inner circle shows the videos they're focused on. The data gets pretty granular,
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The game layer on top of...
and this is this is so deep-seated in our psyche that when were presented with a progress bar and presented with easy granular steps to take to try and complete that progress bar we will do it we will find a way to move that blue line all the way to the right edge of the screen this is used in conventional
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Abha Dawesar: Life in...
The overall time that we have for our narrative, our lifespan, has been increasing, but the smallest measure, the moment, has shrunk. It has shrunk because our instruments enable us in part to measure smaller and smaller units of time, and this in turn has given us a more granular understanding
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Autism — what we know...
there's actually a single volume that's missing. We had to get more granular than that, though, and so we had to start opening those books, and in some cases, the genetic change was more subtle. It might have been a single paragraph that was missing, or yet, even more subtle than that,
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How to be your best self...
out there and how they can deal with their emotions the most important thing we know you know spoke about instead of saying I am said you noticing that you feeling said another very very important part of being effective with our emotions is being granular with our
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Why specializing early...
as he for a healthy ecosystem, we need both birds and frogs. Frogs are down in the mud, seeing all the granular details. The birds are soaring up above not seeing those details but integrating the knowledge of the frogs. And we need both. The problem, Dyson said,
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The dawn of the age of...
to this holographic computer on my head, machines are becoming capable of understanding our world. And they are starting to interact with us in significantly more personal ways. Now, imagine having granular control over everything in the world.
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Compelling Models for...
we want to do this differently and the brief was to make it different raw hostile that's the term we came up with visceral granular truth and rather than not sugar-coated because that's a bit unfair and judgmental but or pejorative
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Rodney Mullen: Pop an...
And so this is what I want to emphasize that, as you can imagine, all of these tricks are made of submovements, executive motor functions, more granular to the degree to which I can't quite tell you, but one thing I do know is,
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Seth Priebatsch:...
and that bothers me. And this is so deep-seated in our psyche that when we're presented with a progress bar and presented with easy, granular steps to take to try and complete that progress bar, we will do it. We will find a way to move that blue line all the way to the right edge of the screen. This is used in conventional games as well.
Video examples
Let's use video to...
how long they've spent each day, what videos they've watched, when did they pause the videos, what did they stop watching, what exercises are they using, what have they focused on? The outer circle shows what exercises they were focused on. The inner circle shows the videos they're focused on. The data gets pretty granular,
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The game layer on top of...
and this is this is so deep-seated in our psyche that when were presented with a progress bar and presented with easy granular steps to take to try and complete that progress bar we will do it we will find a way to move that blue line all the way to the right edge of the screen this is used in conventional
Video examples
Abha Dawesar: Life in...
The overall time that we have for our narrative, our lifespan, has been increasing, but the smallest measure, the moment, has shrunk. It has shrunk because our instruments enable us in part to measure smaller and smaller units of time, and this in turn has given us a more granular understanding
Video examples
Autism — what we know...
there's actually a single volume that's missing. We had to get more granular than that, though, and so we had to start opening those books, and in some cases, the genetic change was more subtle. It might have been a single paragraph that was missing, or yet, even more subtle than that,
Video examples
How to be your best self...
out there and how they can deal with their emotions the most important thing we know you know spoke about instead of saying I am said you noticing that you feeling said another very very important part of being effective with our emotions is being granular with our
Video examples
Why specializing early...
as he for a healthy ecosystem, we need both birds and frogs. Frogs are down in the mud, seeing all the granular details. The birds are soaring up above not seeing those details but integrating the knowledge of the frogs. And we need both. The problem, Dyson said,
Video examples
The dawn of the age of...
to this holographic computer on my head, machines are becoming capable of understanding our world. And they are starting to interact with us in significantly more personal ways. Now, imagine having granular control over everything in the world.
Video examples
Compelling Models for...
we want to do this differently and the brief was to make it different raw hostile that's the term we came up with visceral granular truth and rather than not sugar-coated because that's a bit unfair and judgmental but or pejorative
Video examples
Rodney Mullen: Pop an...
And so this is what I want to emphasize that, as you can imagine, all of these tricks are made of submovements, executive motor functions, more granular to the degree to which I can't quite tell you, but one thing I do know is,
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Eva Moskowitz
American Educator
Excellence is the accumulation of hundreds of minute decisions; it is execution at the most granular level. Once you accept the idea that you should give in to things that make no sense because other people do those things and you want to appear reasonable, you are on a path towards mediocrity.
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Nick Harkaway
English Novelist
Steampunk appeals to the idea of uniqueness, to the one-off item, while every mainstream consumer technology of recent years is about putting human beings into ever more granular, packageable and mass-produced identities so that they can be sold or sold to, perfectly mapped and understood.
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Karl Iagnemma
American Writer
There's a lot of knowledge in civil engineering about how soils will react when subjected to heavy loads. When you take lightweight vehicles and granular soils of varying composition, it's a very complex modeling process.
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Wil Wheaton
American Actor
To be sure, anonymity online has it uses and is very important. Governments hoover up people's telephone and e-mail records without oversight, and companies track astonishingly granular personal information.
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Travis Knight
American Producer
Artists are neurotic and hypersensitive, and they tend to focus on granular details, sometimes at the expense of the big picture. I've gotten better at the big picture over the years.
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Thomas Chatterton Williams
American Critic
We are all living in a techno-dystopian fantasy, the Internet-connected portals we rely on rendering the world in all its granular detail and absurdity like Borges's 'Aleph.
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Mark Zuckerberg
American Businessman
I think humans are just hard-wired to process people's faces and understand meaning and expression at such a more granular level than other types of communication.
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Billy Beane
American Athlete
Who wants to get really granular with sabermetrics when you're going to see a two-and-a-half-hour Brad Pitt movie? You don't go to the cinema for a maths lesson.
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Gad Saad
Canadian Scientist
The capacity for humans to come up with ever-increasingly granular in-group versus out-group demarcations is truly breathtaking.
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Henry Gray
English Scientist
The entire substance of the spleen at an early period is almost entirely composed of nuclei and granular matter.
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Eva Moskowitz
American Educator
Excellence is the accumulation of hundreds of minute decisions; it is execution at the most granular level. Once you accept the idea that you should give in to things that make no sense because other people do those things and you want to appear reasonable, you are on a path towards mediocrity.
Quote examples
Nick Harkaway
English Novelist
Steampunk appeals to the idea of uniqueness, to the one-off item, while every mainstream consumer technology of recent years is about putting human beings into ever more granular, packageable and mass-produced identities so that they can be sold or sold to, perfectly mapped and understood.
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Karl Iagnemma
American Writer
There's a lot of knowledge in civil engineering about how soils will react when subjected to heavy loads. When you take lightweight vehicles and granular soils of varying composition, it's a very complex modeling process.
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Wil Wheaton
American Actor
To be sure, anonymity online has it uses and is very important. Governments hoover up people's telephone and e-mail records without oversight, and companies track astonishingly granular personal information.
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Travis Knight
American Producer
Artists are neurotic and hypersensitive, and they tend to focus on granular details, sometimes at the expense of the big picture. I've gotten better at the big picture over the years.
Quote examples
Thomas Chatterton Williams
American Critic
We are all living in a techno-dystopian fantasy, the Internet-connected portals we rely on rendering the world in all its granular detail and absurdity like Borges's 'Aleph.
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Mark Zuckerberg
American Businessman
I think humans are just hard-wired to process people's faces and understand meaning and expression at such a more granular level than other types of communication.
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Billy Beane
American Athlete
Who wants to get really granular with sabermetrics when you're going to see a two-and-a-half-hour Brad Pitt movie? You don't go to the cinema for a maths lesson.
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Gad Saad
Canadian Scientist
The capacity for humans to come up with ever-increasingly granular in-group versus out-group demarcations is truly breathtaking.
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Henry Gray
English Scientist
The entire substance of the spleen at an early period is almost entirely composed of nuclei and granular matter.
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